FAITH CAPSULE: With distance from the word of God is to be opened to false engagement.

Jeremiah 2

One that is in a distant position from God will be close to what is not of God.
Consciously or consciously, are you in a distant position from God or close to God? 
Taking to a distant position from God is far from the word of God. 
With distance from the word of God is to become open to false. 
Taking to a distant position from God is walking far from the word to miss out on the direction of God. 
To walk far from God will lead to falling and failure. 
The word of God is God. 
God is a jealous God that is not to go far from Him.
Are you walking far from God?
God spoke through Jeremiah to the children of Israel, “…What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, have followed idols, and have become idolaters? Neither did they say, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land that no one crossed and where no one dwelt?’” (Jeremiah 2:4-6) 
Know that God is a jealous God. 
Acknowledge God always, give Him continuous attention, and identify Him for seeing you through from the past to the present.
God spoke through Jeremiah that the children of Israel had failed to do right by not identifying Him for the past and not acknowledging Him for the present.
One that takes a distant position from the word of God, the rebellious act will take charge in the life of such before God. 
God wants all to hear and receive His word to heart. 
God said to Ezekiel, “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears.” (Ezekiel 3:10) 
Do you have an opening ear?
An opening ear shall give a place to gain the direction of the word of God into the heart.
In the heart is the place for the word of God to become established.
The point here is for all to give attention to the word of God by allowing the ear to give preference to the word of God. 
With attention in place for the word to enter, see in the word of God, to gain direction shall become the portion of one opened to the word of God. Find time to attend and listen to the word of God, gain understanding, and begin to see and receive direction from God. 
Get close to God by opening to His word, the only way to live by His direction.

Prayer for today: Ask to gain and maintain a close position in the word of God.