How Jehovah Draws Close to Us

"Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you." - JAMES 4:8.

EVERYONE needs to feel closer to other people.  It makes us happy to have family and friends who really love, value and understand us. But the closest relationship we need to develop is with out Creator, Jehovah. - ECCLESIASTES  12:1. 

Jehovah invites us to be his friends.  He promises that if we draw close to him, he will draw close to us. (James  4:8) Knowing this makes us feel happy.  But many people think that it is not realistic to believe that God wants  to be close to them.  They feel that they are not worthy of having a relationship with him that he is too far away. Is it really possible to draw close to Jehovah?

Yes, it is possible to know Jehovah because "he is not far from each one" who wants to find him. (Acts 17:26, 27; Psalm 145:18)  Jehovah is ready and willing to accept us as his close friends, even though we are imperfect humans.  (Isaiah 41:8; 55:6)  As a result of his own experience, the  psalmist  said about Jehovah:  "O Hearer of prayer, to you people of all sorts will come.  Happy is the one whom who you choose and bring near." (Psalm 65:2, 4) Let us now see from the Bible how king Asa of Judah drew close to God and how God also drew close to Asa. 

Next time: How Jehovah Draws Close to Us - LEARN FROM AN ANCIENT EXAMPLE

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