You won’t trust God if you don’t really know Him. And you won’t know Him if you keep Him at a distance. Trust in the Lord is a direct result of being in close relationship with Him. Our God is a God of relationship.

If you aren’t cultivating intimacy with God – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, then all you have is religion. Unfortunately, religion has held God at a distance by emphasizing rules, doctrine, and dogma, over the intimacy of communing and worshiping the Lord “in spirit and in truth” as Jesus said we would.