To be near unto God - pagina 584

fully

aware of the antithesis between the world of things, and always to

and the higher order

foster fellowship with that higher order of things, to strengthen it, to feed it, and to remove everything that might hinder or weaken it out of the

This power and ability does not come to us from ourselves, and not from one another, but That which mainsolely and alone from God. way.

tains our vital connection with that higher world exclusively the grace of Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost. And for this reason, as often as the congregation assembles, the minister of the Word salutes it with this assurance, and at the close dismisses it with the is

same

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name

of the Lord.

near unto

God

is

the vital strength of

That alone and nothing else. He whj wanders away from God, and becomes estranged from him, weakens himself, disturbs his inner life, and is lost again in the world. On the other hand he who continues to be near unto God and lives in secret fellowship with God, drinks in the powers of the kingdom each morning anew, lives in spiritual realities, and is breathed upon from on high. And this salutation of blessing anl this dismissal with blessin^ is the constantly repeated assurance from the Triune God that his grace, his love and his fellowship continue to inall

believers.

cline toward you; that God will be near unto you, in order that you may be near unto him, and that it is your sin alone that deprives you of this blessed

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