To be near unto God - pagina 259

tenderness, which no longer hides anything. More yet, the Father-name inckides the name of the child. With the Abba Father comes the surprising discovery that one is himself a child of God, and with it is disclosed the nobility of our race, the ro3'al exaltation above everj'thing that surrounds us in the unconscious creation, and the thought which tranforms all of life, that this is not our real life, for that our real life is with

and by and in our God. With this the last step is made possible. And at length comes the full revelation of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, of the one and threefold Being. This at once establishes the connection of the relation which we sustain to God with the Being of God itself. By itself the Father-name might yet stand outside of the Divine Being,

and merely have been borrowed from human family life. In this case it would merely imply, that as we are children of our father at home, God also watches as a Father over us. But all this becomes different at once. In his Being God is eternally Father, and in this same Being of. God is the Son. Hence what is known on earth in the family is only the image of what eternally was in the Being of God. It is no longer a comparision. The real is expressed in the Father-name. Likewise when we are priviledge to be called God's Child, this name is not borrowed from comparision with the family, but it comes to us directly from the image of God. He is not merely called our Father, but he is eternally our Father. We are not merely called his child. We are his child, generated by him and born from him. 251

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