To be near unto God - pagina 613

other purport than the better to glorify the

God

and Father of all in Christ. This same thing must here be applied to our secret walk with God. We must frequentb^ ask ourselves: If you had nothing, absolutely nothing aside from God, would your soul be perfectly satisfied? When you seek and endeavor and strive to be near unto God, is it that you might rest in him with all your heart, or is it perhaps merely that 3'ou might find in him the helper, who can give you all sorts of other desired things after which your heart goes out really the more strongly? Let no one complain that he who has God and him alone, has nothing but God. For he who has God in him has everything. But that \'ou might test the sincerity of your own personal piety, you should knovX^ for yourself whether you are so concerned about God, that though all other things are added, you are intent upon him alone. Or, whether your heart really seeks the other things, and in addition to them God, through whose help you might obtain them the more surely. Or finally, whether you w^ant to become a partaker of God and with him of the other things?

And

in behalf of this test, anticipation of the

hour of death has uncommon value. That you imagine to yourself the moment when everything on earth shall fall away from you, and as far as

you

concerned, shall cease to exist. That enter upon the thought that 3'ou will have nothing in heaven forever but the Triune God, it lifts your heart up to the highest foretaste of holy joy, in the sense that in all honesty you can say that it is good for you "to are

whether,

when you

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