Our Intimacy With Him is the Force that Propels Us

I have known people who fast and pray and study the Bible and yet are so hard to live with. They are like porcupines—they look wonderful from a distance, but if you get near them, they poke you. They’re arrogant and proud. They can hardly say they’re sorry when they fail.

It’s easy to notice this in other people. But any one of us can end up in this place if we are not actively pursuing the Lord and seeking to know Him. We can find ourselves doing all the right things outwardly while nothing...