The Near Love: When God Feels Distant and Your Heart Is the Lock
The Near Love: When God Feels Distant and Your Heart Is the Lock There is a quiet ache familiar to many earnest believers—the gap between the love we know is proclaimed and the love we struggle to feel. It's the space between solid theology on a Sunday and a sense of strange loneliness by Tuesday afternoon. For a long time, I lived in that gap. I could teach about grace, yet inwardly perform for scraps of approval. I knew God was love, yet often related to Him as a distant benefactor rather than a present Father. The turning point wasn't finding a new spiritual technique or unlocking a deeper secret. It was a humbling, grace-drenched realization: the problem was never God's proximity, but my reception. My new book, "The Near Love: Unblocking Your Heart to the God Who Is Already Close," is the map of that journey from self-hindrance to secure abiding. What You'll Find Inside This book is not a superficial pep talk or a dry theological treatise. It's a ...