Submitted by Amanda, site moderator.
O LORD, you are my rock of safety. Please help me; don't refuse to answer me. For if you are silent, I might as well give up and die.
In light of the new year, I've decided to make some changes. There's the infamous resolution to lose weight, but first and most importantly, I want to get closer to God. I want to read my Bible more, I want to pray more, I want to worship more, and I just want to get into the presence of the Lord more and more until it's constant. I want God to be so high on my priority list that, without Him, I might as well just go ahead and die. I want to love Him so much that I need to talk to Him everyday just to breathe. I want to encourage everyone reading this to take this journey with me. Decide what steps you need to take to get closer to God (and I promise you, there is never a point where you are close enough) or make yourself more like Jesus, write out the steps you need to take on paper, and then put them into action.
~Psalm 28:1