Our Role in our Relation to God

Our Role in our Relation to God

To a very great extent, we determine our own relationship to God. "Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you." is the divine formula for close fellowship with Him (Jas. 4:8). "If a man love Me, he will keep My words," declared Jesus: "and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him" (Jn. 14:23). "The reason John was 'that disciple whom Jesus loved' (Jn. 21:7) was because Jesus was the Christ whom John loved more than anyone or anything else." The more we heed God's Word, the more He will speak to our hearts. The more we seek "the beauty of the Lord" (Ps. 27:4), the more we shall behold it. The more patiently we wait upon God, the more we shall renew our strength (Isa. 40:31). The more implicitly we trust Him, the greater will be the revelation of Himself to us. The more we do His will, the more He will open our understanding of "the hidden wisdom" which was "ordained before the world unto our glory" (I Cor. 2:7).