Far or Near ? “Be not far from me, O Lord. O my strength….” Psalm 22:19 In both the Old and New Testaments, the distance between God and mankind is a repeated topic – a topic about which the psalmist prayed, a topic which should concern all of us, and which deeply concerned God to the extent where He did something about it: “But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have been brought close by the blood of Christ.” (Ephesians 2:13). God gave up His Son to bring