Distance need not be physical, measured in feet and inches. Spiritual distance is just as real. Wandering from our Heavenly Father can lead to places of darkness and famine. Coming nearer to our Heavenly Father implies movement, a change in Spiritual Location.

[3] Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? (Psalm 24)

[13] And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. (Luke 15)

[5] Behold, the field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted. [6] Yea, they shall not be beaten down by the storm at the last day; yea, neither shall they be harrowed up by the whirlwinds; but when the storm cometh they shall be gathered together in their place, that the storm cannot penetrate to them; yea, neither shall they be driven with fierce winds whithersoever the enemy listeth to carry them. (Alma 26)

[26] But this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness. (Alma 34)

[18] But now, behold, they are led about by Satan, even as chaff is driven before the wind, or as a vessel is tossed about upon the waves, without sail or anchor, or without anything wherewith to steer her; and even as she is, so are they. (Mormon 5)

[43] And now, my son, I would that ye should understand that these things are not without a shadow; for as our fathers were slothful to give heed to this compass (now these things were temporal) they did not prosper; even so it is with things which are spiritual. [44] For behold, it is as easy to give heed to the word of Christ, which will point to you a straight course to eternal bliss, as it was for our fathers to give heed to this compass, which would point unto them a straight course to the promised land. [45] And now I say, is there not a type in this thing? For just as surely as this director did bring our fathers, by following its course, to the promised land, shall the words of Christ, if we follow their course, carry us beyond this vale of sorrow into a far better land of promise. (Alma 37)

[32] But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved…. (D&C 45) [also D&C 87:8 and D&C 101:22]