Are we Daily Drawing Nigh to God?

As a Christian it is our duty to draw nigh to God and strive to know him better. It is not merely enough to say that "I am saved and I go to church Sunday morning and evening and Wednesday night." There must be a personal striving to build ones relationship with the Almighty God. This is not an easy task. It is easy to give way to our flesh and say, "I am too tired, too busy, or just plainly don't feel like it." and we forsake our God and scream, "I hate you!" to His face. And when we give way to our flesh once and do not repent and draw nigh to God once again, we allow ourselves to be more calloused to the death that sin brings and we make more decisions based on our fleshly selfishness. And the more times that we allow sin to take hold of our lives the further we stray from God and peregrinate from his amazing grace. And if we continue down this path, we will continue to make our decisions based on our selfishness until we eventually either stray from God or we make a decision that we regret (because of the consequences and that our habitually sinful state is revealed to other people). But though we regret this decision in order to ultimately change from our sinful ways, we must repent from our sinful actions and draw nigh to our God who is running to us in love because he see his prodigal son coming home to Him. So in order for us to prevent ourselves from denying our God traveling down a sinful path, we must humbly repent from our sins and beseech God for strength to draw nigh to Him. We must daily study and meditate on the Scriptures and spend our days filled with prayer and fellowship with the body of Christ. As Christians, we must beat and train our bodies as an athlete as to guard our lives from ever forsaking God and listening to the sinful whispers of our flesh and so to draw nigh to God and the knowledge of His holiness.