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Follow Close
“And Peter followed afar off” (Luke 22:54).
We can never really do anything properly for the Lord unless we are following close to Him. Here is a simple illustration:
If I have a magnet in my hand, and a pile of nails across the room, will the nails be drawn to the magnet? No, of course not. What’s wrong? They are too far from the magnet! That is so often the problem with me, and maybe with you as well. The magnet is fine, but we need to get closer to it.
When it comes to following and serving the Lord, we will never do it rightly until we are close enough to Him. When we get close to Him we find it is not that difficult to know what His will is for our lives and what He would have us to do. But if we are at a distance from the Source, we may find that the love of Christ doesn’t seem to be compelling or controlling us. Has His love changed? Not at all, but we are too far away. We have allowed things into our life that have put a wall between us and the Lord. When that happens we need to take heed to the exhortation, “Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you” (James 4:8).
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