To be near unto God - pagina 95

which the voice of God passes by us in the wind of the day, but leaves us unmoved and indifferent. While blessed in turn is each day in which in "the wind of the day" God comes so near to the soul that the approach turns into communion, in the intimacy and tenderness of which with fresh draughts we enjoy again the unfailing love of God. 17

"THOU SETTEST A PRINT UPON THE ROOTS OF MY FEET.''

We are always repelled in Psalm 39 by the hard words which David there addresses to God: Look away from me, that I may brighten For can we imagine a more unnatural up. prayer than this ? Man and God

constitute the greatest antitrue religion, springing from our creation after the image of God, aims solely and alone to put man into closest communion with God, or where this communion, is broken, to restore it. And here the Psalmist, who still counts as the Singer who has interpreted piety most profoundly, prays and cries, not for the approach of God, but that God will look away from his soul, that He will leave him alone, give him rest, and so refresh the last hours of his life before dying: "Hear my prayer, Lord, hold not thy peace at my tears, look away from me, that I may brighten up, before I go hence, and be no more." (R. V. Marg. read.) In Psalm 42 he said: "As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, God." And here it is the direct opposite: "Turn thee away from me, that my soul thesis.

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