To be near unto God - pagina 210

child otherwise^ than by disinterested kindness. And this is just what God has done for us. He has done it in Christ. In Christ he has come to us as man, to make the inequality equal, to join himself to our life and in everything to become like unto the brethren, only sin excepted. This is the great mystery, by virtue of which with those who have joined themselves to Jesus, who believe in him and have become one with him in soul, true love for God can develop itself independently of the hindrance of

descend to the

inequalit}'.

And

if

now you

say that Jesus gave you every-

thhig, and that therefore you can put no crown on his head which already he does not have, then

bring to mind that there is God alone can claim from this one thing is the love of it must be love with all the shall

yearn after God,

one thing his people,

which and that But then

left

the heart. heart, until the heart as God's heart has yearned

after us. 39

''WITH ALL

THY

SOUL."

troubled and even guilty that with the passing years you have made so little advance in love for God, then examine with more care than before the rule of Christ regardYou have known the great commanding it. ment from childhood. You have learned it by heart, and your conscience has admitted unconditionally that Christ is right. In your love for God nothing can be wanting. With all the heart and soul and mind and strength it must be If

you begin to

feel

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