Who moved?

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. – James 4v8

I think we all have times in our lives when we feel that God is not quite as close as He used to be. Sometimes it feels like He has left us all alone to deal with whatever we are going through.

The bad thing is that if we are not careful when can be tempted to blame Him! “Where are you when I need you God?”

I suspect we have a wrong perspective on who moved. James tells us the truth. If we draw close to God He will draw close to us. How do we draw close to God? Cleanse your hands and purify your hearts. Get both the actions and the heart behind the actions right. They go hand in hand and they both keep us from sensing God’s presence.

I like the way this is related. The outside sins are obvious. That is pretty clear. But if we get the outside actions clean without a purified means that we are, to put it simply, double minded hypocrites.

Don’t feel close to God? I wonder who moved?