Draw near to God

“So submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” (JAS 4: 7-8)

God respects our freedom and wants us to be responsible for our relationship with Him—“draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” He will never stop loving us, even if we reject Him, but when we “submit ourselves to God,” He can be in our hearts and help us to become like His Son, Jesus Christ.

“May I never boast except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.”