Proximidade
Deus é próximo dos que o buscam. Ele não é um Deus distante, mas presente, íntimo e acessível a todo o que o invoca com sinceridade de coração.
Buscar a presença de Deus
A Bíblia nos exorta a buscar a face do Senhor continuamente. Quem se aproxima dele encontra plenitude de alegria e delícias perpétuas.
Seek YHWH and His strength, || Seek His face continually.
Seek YHWH and His strength, || Seek His face continually.
Seek YHWH while He may be found, || Call Him while He is near,
One [thing] I asked of YHWH—it I seek: My dwelling in the house of YHWH, || All the days of my life, || To look on the pleasantness of YHWH, || And to inquire in His temple.
For a day in Your courts [is] good, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, || In the house of my God, || Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
You cause me to know the path of life; In Your presence [is] fullness of joys, || Pleasant things [are] by Your right hand forever!
Deus está perto
O Senhor está perto dos que o invocam, dos quebrantados de coração e dos que clamam por socorro. Sua presença nos sustenta.
They cried, and YHWH heard, || And delivered them from all their distresses. YHWH [is] near to the broken of heart, || And He saves the bruised of spirit.
Let your reasonableness be known to all men; the LORD [is] near;
but now, in Christ Jesus, you being once far off became near in the blood of the Christ,
Surely goodness and kindness pursue me || All the days of my life, || And my dwelling [is] in the house of YHWH, || For [the] length of [my] days!
A presença que nunca abandona
Deus promete nunca nos deixar. Ele permanece fiel, está conosco em todo tempo e envia o Espírito para habitar em nossos corações.
I will not leave you bereaved, I come to you;
Our God YHWH is with us as He has been with our fathers; He does not forsake us nor leave us;
and in Your abundant mercies || You have not made them a consumption, || Nor have forsaken them; For a God, gracious and merciful, [are] You.
and may the LORD of peace Himself always give to you peace in every way; the LORD [is] with you all!
From now on, brothers, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
in this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given us.
No one has ever seen God; the only begotten God who is on the bosom of the Father—He has expounded [Him].
And he is there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he has not eaten bread, and he has not drunk water; and he writes on the tablets the matters of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
and heal the ailing in it, and say to them, The Kingdom of God has come near to you.
And the Spirit of God has been on Azariah son of Oded, and he goes out before Asa and says to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; YHWH [is] with you—in your being with Him, and if you seek Him, He is found by you, and if you forsake Him, He forsakes you; and many days [are] to Israel without [the] true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, and it turns back in its distress to YHWH, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found by them, and in those times there is no peace for him who is going out, and for him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands, and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God has troubled them with every adversity; and you, be strong, and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work." And at Asa’s hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he has strengthened himself, and causes the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he has captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and renews the altar of YHWH that [is] before the porch of YHWH, and gathers all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon—for they have defected to him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that his God YHWH [is] with him. And they are gathered to Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa, and sacrifice to YHWH on that day from the spoil they have brought in—seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep, and they enter into a covenant to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, and everyone who does not seek for YHWH, God of Israel, is put to death, from small to great, from man to woman. And they swear to YHWH with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with horns, and all Judah rejoices concerning the oath, for they have sworn with all their heart, and they have sought Him with all their goodwill, and He is found by them, and YHWH gives rest to them all around. And also Maachah, mother of Asa the king—he has removed her from [being] mistress, in that she has made for an Asherah a horrible thing, and Asa cuts down her horrible thing, and beats [it] small, and burns [it] by the Brook of Kidron: yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect all his days. And he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God: silver, and gold, and vessels. And war has not been until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.