To be near unto God - pagina 109

Thus the hght of God's countenance ought to frighten us, and yet it does not. And it can not do this, because it lays bare to us the fulness of grace which is alive in the Father-heart of God. When anyone does not believe in the entire forgiveness of sm, God hides his face from him. Only when faith in the atonement operates in full does the light of the Divine countenance shine

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upon, compass and penetrate us. And then comes the "walking in that light." Walking here implies that not only occasionally we catch a beam of the light of the Divine countenance, but that it has become permanent for us. That is, it is there for our good, even when we do not think of it, and that we regain it every time our soul longs for it. And so we continue to walk the pathway of our life, from day to day, in the light of the Divine countenance. No longer inspired by our own phantasies, no more spurred on by the ideals of the world, which have shown themselves deceptive, and no longer with a dark heaven above us, in which at most a single star still glitters, but we go on by the light which is above the light of the sun and by the outshining of ever fuller grace in the light of the countenance of

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SEEK THY SERVANT. The searchlight, projected from the tower across city and plain, is a striking image of the flashing of the All-seeing Eye. bundle of white, soft, clear light darts out into the darkness, with the velocity of the twinkling of an eye, from a single

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