Coming Close To God And Others

God invites us today to come close to Him for all we need and then to come close to others to share with them how they can do the same.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the confidence we can have to come to You knowing that we will find love we don’t even deserve, and generous blessing for whatever needs we are experiencing.   Thank You for Jesus whose death and resurrection has won us this place where we can stand in Your holy presence. 

You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.  1 Peter 2:9

It’s wonderful how You’ve rescued us from meaningless lives to become Your chosen ones and how You are making us into a holy people as we walk in Your marvelous light.  But even more than that ,we know Lord, that You’ve done all this in us so many others can also experience this forgiveness and deliverance from darkness. We remember what You told Paul in the Bible:

I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you … to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’  Acts 26:16-18

Nothing solid that we have today has come to us outside of the Lord Jesus and so we set our hope in Him today.  Please open the eyes of our hearts that we may know you, and give effective witness to Your goodness to those who don’t yet know You. 

Who are You sending to us today to lift up, to encourage, to speak of Your love and comfort, to let them know that You are ready to forgive them and enter into a life-giving relationship with them?  Give us favour in the hearing of those with whom we speak.  Amen

Let’s have a wonderful day coming close to God to give Him worship and praise and then get close enough to others so we can let His greatness be known to them.