Draw Near – 365 Guides to Greater Intimacy with GodSample

SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE Pilgrimages have become popular among rock music stars, political personalities, and people in the entertainment world. Many of them spend thousands of dollars to travel to some mystic in the East to find out about their relationship to the universe. Such pilgrimages have become status symbols; and, as a result, North America has experienced an influx of Eastern mysticism. Needless to say, these pilgrimages do little for the participants other than relieving them of their money. Long ago, the writer of Hebrews told us clearly what the only thing is that can help us know ourselves, find our relationship with the larger universe, and come to peaceful terms with God. Over a period of sixteen hundred years, God inspired more than forty writers to put the Bible into permanent form. The Word of God has the power to make us see ourselves and discern our thoughts and intents. By reading God's Word, we catch inner glimpses of ourselves. We identify with personalities in the Bible and recognize that we share their weaknesses as well as their strengths. The accounts of their lives let us see beyond the bend in our paths, and we can make course corrections to remedy our situations. The only real pilgrimage modern man needs take to find truth is between the covers of the Bible. His Word convicts and assures us as we live in an intimate way with ourselves, others, and God.