To be near unto God - pagina 54

not joined to the Eternal. Pray as we may, God! hold not thythere is no fellowship. self as one deaf; why dost thou not hear me? But religion operates. The loss of Divine fellowship makes us very unhappy. Some sinful inclination of the heart has caused it. Some The heart has secret sin has prevented it. been troubled about many things that have excluded the Lord from the inner life. And It makes us thi loss of fellowship is good. examine ourselves. It makes us unite the heart again to fear his name. Bodily conditions, too, may interrupt Divine communion. headache may depress us and prevent the mind from free utterance, or lessen our sensitiveness. This also may act as a spur to give the body rest and calm in behalf of fellowship with God. At times, however, the failure of obtaining a Divine hearing can not be explained from one cause or from another. We find nothing that accuses us. And yet God withdraws himBut even then conjectures reself from us. garding the cause do not fail us. The believer on God sometimes overestimates his piety. He enters upon terms of familiarity with the love He loses sight of the distance that of God. extends between him and God. He takes it as a matter of course, as a something that ought to be, that fellowship with God is his portion. He even counts it at times as a mark of special holiness that he seeks Divine fellowis

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