Where are You?

CLOSER WEEK PT. 1  |  AUGUST 9, 2026Pastor Bria Bradshaw1 John 3:1-2 ESV - See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.Matthew 18:3 ESV  Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.Humanity began with attachment to the Source.Genesis 3:9 ESV - But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”Not because God lost them, but because they lost proximity.Ephesians 2:13 ESV - But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.Matthew 7:21-23 ESV - “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me…’It’s possible to do the things of God that we know to do but never actually know the God we’re doing it for.1 Corinthians 13:1-3 - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”The answer is to come closer, not try harder.Where are you?Where have you made your home?How have you learned to keep yourself safe?Where do you run when you’re afraid?