“Come near to God and he will come near to you.”
—James 4:8 NIV
The first and last advice for a Christian—and indeed for any believer—is to cultivate a close relationship with God. If your relationship with God is distant and abstract, then perhaps you are going about it the wrong way. Admittedly, it can be difficult to have a relationship with God, since God is more a spiritual than a physical bein…
