There's more, nearer! (Part 1)

A happy new year can only be realistic from His presence.

My pastor likes to say: "Answers are gotten from His presence". Answers that correctly link all of life's most scrambled puzzles. Whatever it is you seek in the physical, must first be found in His presence.

So, it's that time of the year when most religious groups embark on a fasting exercise or some sort of program to get the church start the year with God. Every New Year...every resolution, is an opportunity to expect more, long for more, reach for more. Asides the RELIGIOUS exercise, how much can you drink?...how deep can you dig? This I  think is a PERSONAL call.

I read this article by Alistair Begg sometime ago, i hope you find it inspiring.

"Get you up to a high mountain. -Isaiah 40:9"

Each believer should be thirsting for God, for the living God, and longing to climb the hill of the Lord and see Him face to face. We should not rest content in the mists of the valley when the summit of the mountain beckons us. My soul thirsts to drink deeply of the cup that is reserved for those who reach the mountain's peak and bathe their brows in heaven. How pure are the dews of the hills; how fresh is the mountain air; how abundant is the provision of the dwellers aloft, whose windows look into the New Jerusalem!

Many saints are content to live like men in coal mines, who do not see the sun; they eat dust like the serpent when they might taste the food of angels; they are content to wear the miner's garb when they might put on king's robes; tears disfigure their faces when they might anoint them with celestial oil. I am convinced that many a believer pines in a dungeon when he might walk on the palace roof and view the goodly land. Rouse yourself, believer, from your low condition! Discard your laziness, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your sincere and pure love for Christ, your soul's Husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of your soul's whole range of delight.

What fully enchants you to remain in a pit when you may sit on a throne? Do not live in the lowlands of bondage now that mountain liberty is conferred upon you. Do not be satisfied any longer with your tiny attainments, but press forward to things more sublime and heavenly. Aspire to a higher, a nobler, a fuller life.

Upward to heaven! Nearer to God!
When will Thou come unto me, Lord?
Oh come, my Lord most dear!
Come near, come nearer, nearer still,
I'm blest when Thou art near.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Host His presence.