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“It is just a matter of geography. You are closer than you think.”
My personal life, and where I desired to be spiritually, felt miles apart. Defeat and hopelessness hung over me like a storm cloud. Everything thing I tried to do to be more like Christ turned into another failure, or made me feel more like the devil than Jesus. So I went to see a mentor-Pastor seeking his advice and help.
I can remember it like it was yesterday even though it was 42 years ago. I told my Pastor that I felt so far away from God. He smiled and gave me some words of encouragement from Jesus’parable in Luke 13:1-9. He told me I was closer to God than I thought. It was only a matter of geography. God was ready to go to work on me if I would allow it.
Throughout the Scriptures we find that God is close to the broken-hearted, and if we draw close to Him, He draws close to us.
In the parable found in Luke 13:1-9, the arborist is God. He wants to supply us, the fruitless tree, with what we need to be fruitful. Only the Holy Spirit dwelling in us can bring us back to life.
Where are you in relationship to God. Feeling distant and stagnant in your walk with the Lord? Allow the Father to dig around your life with His Word, and to prune the dead wood from your branches. Only He can give you the Life giving sap/power of the Holy Spirit.

It is only a matter of geography;)

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