A MONTH TO STRIVE TO NEAR GOD

God is a good God.
God is near His creation, the character of a caring, perfect God.
Are you near to God?
How far are you from God?
Know that God is near, but all takes a distance from God.
The word of God is God.
The creation of God is His word.
It is glaring that the creations of God that are seeable are His word, the evidence that God is near to all.
Psalm 75:1 buttresses, “We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.”
The word of God, His work, and His name are near to all who will acknowledge and live near Him.
God is near to all with the desire to be near to Him.
The key to being near God is to fear God.
Note that the fear of God is His treasure. (Isaiah 33:6)
Fear of God is to near God.
One that walks with God or walks before God is near to God.
Enoch and Noah walked with God, the character of being near to God.
Abram walked before God, evidence to be near God and not to live a life of waste.
Have the desire to draw near to God.
Seek God diligently to find God.
Jeremiah 29:13 states, “And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
It is those who find God that are near to God.
One who is sinful is far from God because, with sin, no one can reach God.
Romans 3:23 buttresses, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Are you far or near from God?
It is possible to be near God.
If it is impossible to be near God, the word of God would not demand or encourage all to be near God.
Seek God diligently, find God, and draw near God as possible.
Draw near to God, and He will draw to you.
To draw near God is not a mouth talk.
Know to be near God!
It is a blessing to find God, the character of one that is near God.
To find God is not noise-making, quoting scripture verses, or running after anyone in the name of God.
A believer seeking the world in the name of God proves that such is not seeking God diligently to find God.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
God is not far from one who will seek God diligently, giving self to the word of God to continue to live life for God. 
One who seeks God in His way but does not seek in the way of God will not find nor near God.
Are you seeking God to find and near God?
Dwelling and abiding in the word of God is near to God.
Psalm 91:1 states, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
The secret of God is His word.
Dwelling and abiding in the word of God as a way of life is taking a position near to God.
Not living by the word of God, telling lies, or deceiving others as it pleases them is taking a route that is not near to God. 
The majority claim the word of God sounds like dwelling, but not abiding by the word of God shall be far from God.
The word of God is His presence.
In the word of God is healing, deliverance, and preservation.
Live by the word of God to gain and retain the presence of God.
Pray to be enabled to live life by the word of God.
Making a church building day and night does not testify as one near to God.
To be gathering among believers is not evidence that such is also near God.
What kind of a believer are you?
A believer knows the word of God and lives by the word of God.
An acclaimed believer who only knows about God does not live life by the word of God and carries the word of God in the head, not in the heart and far from God.
Know the word of God to be waiting on God, the identity of one near to God.  
God acts for those who wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Let your desire, not just determination, drive you to know and be near God.
How is your walk in the way of God?
Your walk in the way of God is the key to being near God.
Enoch and Noah walked with God all their lives as evidence of their near to God.
Genesis 17:1 states, “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.”
One who walks with or before God is bound to be near God. Know to walk in the way of God but not in your way to near Him and not live a life of waste.