To be near unto God - pagina 195

be not hindered. You feel this yourself when you want to pray, and cannot, because of the things that stand between you and God. Your thoughts, inclinations and feelings must first be detached from them all. They must be driven out from the mind. And then God comes back to you, and you can pray again. And what happens in prayer one moment must happen in every particular of your whole life; for only then will true love for

God

begin to awaken in you. ''Thou Jesus had this in view when he said: shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy strength." These four together constitute the inner organization of our spirit. These four get implicated every time in egotistical or worldly interests. And therefore they operate wrongly. They separate us from the Holy One. And this is love, that we detach all four from these wrong connections and turn them, not in part, but entirely, to God. This is not really an offering. An offering is something of our own, which we could keep for ourselves, but which we freely give up to another. Nothing is said of this here, and never can be. Our heart is from God, our soul is from God, our mind is from God, and all our powers are his property. Hence we bring God nothing. We but return what belongs to him. And when we do this, and do it in such a way that our heart and

and with

with

all

soul and mind and strength, all four, direct themselves to him, and serve him altogether, the separation is ended and love celebrates her triumph, 191

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