To be near unto God - pagina 402

and shall one day show itself to be our real human existence, even as it is this already for God's angels. But it does follow from this that our earthly life must be continuously

higher, true,

tossed and shaken and move ever up and down; and that it becomes richer, more interesting and more significant in the measure in which we are exposed to stronger tossings, and the up and

down movement

of our existence assumes larger These tossings in life are unequal. With one they are far more serious and grievous than with another. There are those who are scarcely ever moved, and who in consequence know but little elevation of life. But there are others who are cast to the bottom of the deepest abyss of suffering, but who as a result can have most blessed walks on the mountains of God's

proportions.

holiness. Of this latter class one is continually the speaker This accounts on one hand for in the Psalms. the calls from depths of misery and for the complaints that bands of death and hell strike terror to his soul, and on the other hand for the jubilant exultations on account of deliverance and redemption, which result in the grateful acknowledgment,

that God has brought him into a ver}' abundant refreshing (Ps. 66:12 Dutch version). Refreshing means the renewal of strength. A fresh team before the wagon means one that comes from pasture in the fulness of strength. A fresh corps of troops means a battle array which had no part yet at the front but goes out in unimpaired vigor. So there is refreshing when you come out of a period of deadly weariness of soul, of utter loss of strength, of inner under398

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