How to Get Close to God

 If you are in any kind of need, you need to know that God loves you.
Because God loves you, He wants to help you. His love comes from His heart, but His help is also totally practical.
 
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Is 41:10 NIV
 
This text is for all those who know God personally. He always stands by his children, for he is the faithful Father in heaven. He never abandons his sons and daughters.
 
But if you don't know God personally, then you need his help all the more. God Himself has made a way for you to find Him if you are spiritually blind and have no relationship with your Creator.

Listen! The LORD’s arm is not too weak to save you, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.

It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore. Is 59:1–2 NLT

 But despite our estrangement from Him, whereby we have become spiritually blind and like orphans, God still loves us and wants to reconcile us to Himself.
 
The word ‘reconcile’ means that He wants to receive us as His sons (or daughters).
 
Many of us have a longing for God's love. The poet Schiller summarised this longing beautifully.
‘Brothers above the stars there surely must be a dear Father.

Perhaps you are one who believes that you must be a child of the universe.

But God loves you personally. God wants to give you something much better.
God loves you and understands you. He wants you to know Him, to know God as a person;

that you can know that you have a heavenly home, belong to a heavenly family and have a heavenly home.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jn 3:16 NIV

Jesus is the Son of God.

Although he was truly human, he was also God in heaven, who chose to be born as a human being, to live among us humans as a human being and to sacrifice himself to death as a human being.
Why?

He was executed on the cross in order to bear the punishment we deserve for our sins as a totally innocent human being. Our debt is paid!

Now you can get to know God.

You no longer need to be separated from your heavenly Father because of your guilt. Everything is forgiven if you want to receive God's wonderful grace and boundless love.

You can never earn God's love and grace.

You can never pay your debt.

You can’t earn God’s acceptance. He wants to receive you as his child.
 
Jesus said 2000 years ago and he is still saying to you today:
 
Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Mt 11:28 NLT

Put your life in His hands today. He will not let you down.

He is waiting at this moment to hear your voice.

He is the all-knowing God.

He reads your thoughts like a book that is well known to Him. But He doesn't want to be a threatening policeman, He wants to be like your father or your mother or your best friend.

It is not important to speak fine words or say a beautiful pious prayer.
     
Just tell him the thoughts that are in your heart. He understands your heart and your language.