Nothing significance having in life comes easily. The best relationships, the most rewarding work, the highest prizes, academicals achievement, championships, salaries and trophies all come through diligent work, self discipline and constant effort. It is a law of life that the best things in life are the most difficult to attain. A good relationship too does not come without effort. You must make the effort to talk, to listen, to ask, to inquire, to care, to help, to share, to encourage. You can build a good relationship with constant effort. It takes a lot of diligence and discipline to develop an intimate relationship with God.
For example see the following verse “This is what the LORD says : “Seek me and live; (Amos 5:4 ) “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.” (Psalm 14:2) God the Father is giving every single one of us an open invitation to come in and make some kind of attempt to seek after Him. God Says “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13) “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:8)
What does that mean practically seek after God? Seeking God is the conscious effort to get through the natural means to God himself. Seeking involves praying, pursuing and pleading. “O Lord, open my eyes. O Lord, pull back the curtain of my own blindness. Lord, have mercy and reveal yourself. I long to see your face” Seeking the Lord means seeking his presence “Presence” is a common translation of the Hebrew word “face.” Literally, we are to seek God’s “face.” But this is the Hebraic way of having access to God. To be before his face is to be in his presence. It is a “setting of the mind and heart” on God. It is the conscious fixing or focusing of our mind’s attention and our heart’s affection on God and seeks to establish a good, close, intimate, personal relationship with the Lord.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. We can never escape God’s divine essence in your life. When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. No God, no peace. Know God, know peace. Apart from God every activity is merely a passing scent of insignificance. Life is God’s story. Let him write it. Almighty God can easily heal every pain of yours, he can make everything right, just have faith in him and he’ll do the rest. Those who trust Lord will never face failure in life. Faith is trusting God even when you don’t understand His plan.
