Closer to You

Published: Feb. 16, 2020, midnight

b'I want to be closer to You. I want to feel You when I breathe\\u2014Feel You in all that I do,Know that You\\u2019ll never leave.\\nI want my life to be about You\\u2014Put Your wants over mine,Always do as You would do,Know that I will be just fine.\\nJesus, You\\u2019ve made me new.Guide the choices I make.Everything that I do\\u2014Direct the steps that I take.\\u2022 Emily Acker\\n\\u2022 Jesus will dwell with His people forever (Revelation 21:1-5). How does this promise give you hope when God seems distant? \\n\\u2022 In the meantime, as Christians, we can rest in the knowledge that God has made us like Christ through the Holy Spirit; we are new creations in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17). By faith, we can claim the power of this transformation in our everyday lives (John 14:25-26; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Peter 1:3). How does this promise give you comfort in the present? \\nHe [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30 (CSB)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nProverbs 3:5-6; 2 Peter 1:2-4'