DID YOU KNOW, GOD DESIRES OUR COMPANY! But we must keep ourselves pure and clean. Alas! sin thrusts us to an infinite distance from God and unbelief keeps us there. Grace brings us back and brings us nigh by the blood of the cross. When we sin we wander from God, but prayer draws us back. God is on the throne of grace, Jesus our intercessor is before the throne, and we are invited to draw nigh. We are called to come up to the throne, to appear before God, to exercise confidence in Him through Jesus and to pour out our hearts before Him. We are to tell Him all, all we fear, all we desire and all we want. We are to praise Him for all we possess, or have received in time past, or expect in time to come. We are to be frank: there is to be no reserve. We are to be serious: there must be no lightness. We are to be fully assured that our God is love, so there is to be no dread or alarm. Draw nigh to God, to ascertain His will, to enjoy His love, to unburden your mind, to engage Him afresh on your side, that you may rise above the present doomed and cheerless world. "He will draw nigh to you." What an inducement is this! Draw nigh and behold his glories. Draw nigh to God and dissipate your fears.

For Meditation:
Let us now approach Thy throne
Through the living way made known.
Way of faith which Jesus made,
Through the veil of flesh displayed;
Through His rent humanity,
God our Friend in heaven we see.