To be near unto God - pagina 186

could a loving God cruelly cast her down from the heights of her great happiness into the depths In perplexity of grief of bereavement and woe? her language becomes that of despair and of

"Speak no more of God to me. There is no God." Cruelty can not be love. And so the break of happiness in life becomes the break of faith on God. She thought that she knew the Lord. Now that he shows himself in a different way from what she had imagined she abandons all she ever believed. With husband and child she also lost her God. And nothing in the soul but the burned-out hearth is left where the last spark has been extinguished. This shows how hard in the school of suffering the lesson is by which we increase in the knowledge of God. When for the first time in life the full weight of the cross is laid upon the shoulders, the first effect is the opposite from that for which It makes us numb and indifit was imposed. defiant unbelief.

and all knowledge of God is lost. The of love was so beautiful. It sang itself as God who is nothing but it were in the soul. love, who blesses and enriches our life and makes it glad, who would not treasure such knowledge pleasing to us when love is It is of God. blessed and shown, and nothing but love. ferent,

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But the day of adversity dawns, the day of trouble and disappointment, the day of sickness and bitter grief. "Where now is the love of my God? Where the outflow of love from the Father178

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