To be near unto God - pagina 619

intends, is thirst in the heart itself, which the blood of the soul cries after God.

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Zion is not 3'oiir prayer cell. Zion is not your church building. Zion is not even your Christian association. What Israel found on Zion symbolically is for us reality in Christ; in ,your Vindicator and King, himself God, to whom be glory both now and forever, Amen.

He who

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redeemed

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in Christ,

and Christ

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him. As living member he has wonderfully been incorporated in the mystical body of Christ. H[is regenerated nature has most intimately become one with Christ, and in this mystical life with Christ alone, the heart that thirsts after God, drinks in the life from God, And therefor "to be near unto God, "yea, the drinking in of the life of God with all the passion, all the thirst of our soul, is not bound for us to any place, to no presence of others, to no day, to no altar and to no priest. Every place, wheresoever, can at any moment become a Zion to us. It but depends on this one thing: that God is approached in him in whom alone there is access, and who ever liveth to make intercession for us (Hebr. 7:25). in

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