"Draw Near To God"

"But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I might declare all Thy works." (Psalms 73:28) I don't care where you are in your walk with the Lord, you're always never as close to Him as you can be; and you can always draw closer than you currently are. Don't ever try to pretend that you can't get any closer, or that you have somehow arrived to the place where God wants you, because that place is not around here; you will know that place when you are looking at the Lord face to face. Until then, we are never done getting worked out of us that which is not of God. Oh, and just in case you might have thought Jonah being swallowed up by a fish and then spit out alive three days later was a myth, read your Bible, because Jesus used that fact to describe His stay in the tomb. Actually, both Jonah and Jesus had several other things in common; but, as mentioned before, the Old Testament is all about Jesus and God's salvation to come upon all mankind. As a matter of fact, the reason that the Old Testament is bigger than the New Testament is because the Old Testament is a shadow of Christ to come, and shadows are always bigger than the authentic thing they represent. And another thing, no matter where I might be in the Old Testament, when it's time to put a teaching together, it's time to share the Gospel message; no matter where, and in whatever Book, if it's in the Bible, then it's about the Gospel. You can even get the Gospel from the story of "Balaam's Ass" if you wanted to; after all, maybe what many of us need is a talking donkey to wake us up to the fate that awaits us on the road we are currently on. What fascinates the most about Balaam and his donkey, is that conversation Balaam had with it after it first spoke; he spoke to it as if it was a natural occurrence, and as if he was talking to a person, not a donkey. Which reminds me; you do realize that Jesus rose from the grave, don't you? I mean, it does matter that it matters how much you believe that it happened! Somehow I need to find the time to get to the movies this weekend; maybe you should too...
"One day some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said, "Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous sign to prove your authority." But Jesus replied, "Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here -but you refuse to repent. The queen of Sheba will also stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for she came from a distant land to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Now someone greater than Solomon is here -but you refuse to listen. When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. Then it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.' So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation."" (Matthew 12:38-45) NLT