Truth #178 - God IS near! - Psalm 75-77

Psalms 75:1
​We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks, for your name is near.
We recount your wondrous deeds.

Truth:  God is near!!

There are those who don't believe that truth.  There are those who believe, that even if there is a God, He is distant and unengaged in our lives. Or, He is inactive because He is impotent.  They believe He has no power to intervene in our lives so, they believe, He has chosen to be a spectator and commentator rather than a Savior and a Friend.   There are still others who hold that God is there but too distant and too might for us to know.   To them, God is powerful and awesome but distant and beyond our comprehension.  But, the above verse and several others say otherwise.  In this opening verse we read and can believe with real assurance that God IS near.  In fact, the writer assures of this by telling us to simply recounting God's wondrous deeds.   God has done great things, is doing great things and has many great and wondrous deeds yet He will do in our lives.   Notice where the "nearness" of God is also stated in Psalm, even in a more concise manner:

Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.

In this psalm we are told that those who approach God "in truth" can be assured that God is near to them.   To approach God in truth we must have a relationship with the God who is truth.  Jesus came and told us that He was the "way, the truth and the life and no man comes unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6).  Having a relationship, by grace through faith, allows us to call upon God in truth.  We come to God because Christ made a way for us to draw near in faith to Him.  Note what the writer of Hebrews tells us:

Hebrews 10:19-23
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

We can draw near to God and know that He IS near because Christ made the way for us to draw to Him.   This is a divine truth that we can be thankful for.  He has done wondrous deeds by removing the barrier between God and us and making a way to enter into a relationship with the Father, through the Son.