To be near unto God - pagina 30

And that there are moments disregards our prayers, but which, praise his name, are succeeded by other moments in which He does regard them ? You believe in Christ, i^ou believe that his saying is true: *'He that hath seen Me, has seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" On bended knee you confess him as your Lord and your God. But what is the incarnation of the word except that walk with God.

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God became man? And what profit can this be to you, unless you realize that in Christ God has come close to you in a human way ? Before the days of the Bethlehem birth God spoke to us in the human word, but in Christ God is manifest in human nature. He reveals himself to us as the son of Man. A human heart speaks here in human language and in human ways. As the Apostle John asserts: In Jesus they have not only seen and heard what is God's, but have touched, that is they have handled with their hands, and have actually seen before their eyes the eternal Godlike in human manifestation and in human form. Hence the whole Christian faith and Christian con-

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fession rests upon the clear and firm conviction that God has not willed himself to be lost to us in endless abstractions, but that in our human nature, in human form and in human language he comes to us ever more closely, in order through the medium of our human heart to establish affectionate and full fellowship with us.

Our Lord Jesus makes no high-sounding abstract statements of the infinite in the Eternal, but shows us God as our Father, and calls us to be his children, and with childlike confidence, 22

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