God wants to be your closest companion. In fact, the very reason we're created is to have an intimate relationship with Him. Most of us don't realize it because He seems so far away so much of the time. According to scripture, that distant feeling is completely on our end. He "knocks on the door" of our hearts. He invites us to "follow him." He responds to every "search, ask, and knock." He wants to walk with us even more
than we could ever yearn for his presence.

Perhaps the one part of the Bible that best paints this kind of relationship with God is the book of Psalms. Dryly put, the Psalms are a collection of prayers written to God. If you haven't read them, you may be in for a surprise. At times, the joy expressed in them is exuberant. At other times, the prayers are so gut-wrenching honest that you may wonder how they made it in His book. What kind of God would make sure prayers of complaint against himself are recorded for all of history to read? A God who wants to walk with you, to be "closer than a brother," to be your soulmate.