To be near unto God - pagina 447
It is the Holy Ghost himwho, entering into the heart of God's child, sets the seal upon it of this Triune Mj'stery. But for this reason fellowship with the Holy-
stillness of solitude. self
Spirit in us is exceedingly sensitive and tender. Nothing must come in between, or it is gone. It can not withstand anything or it is lost. It can Not not bear any disturbance, or it has fled. that the Holy Spirit withdraws himself and leaves us to ourselves. On the contrary he remains in the heart which he has chosen for his dwelling Neither Satan nor the world can expel place. him from his temple. And this is his Divine love, that dwelling in us, he allows himself to be
grieved, to be offended, to be hurt and wounded by our sin, and still continues his stay. This does not seem to you to be the case. In the hour of transgression, you feel that the Holy Spirit became a stranger to you; that he went far away from you; and that he could scarcely be reached by your earnest supplication. He truly continued to hold tenure in your heart, but in the heart itself a wall of separation was reared
your spirit and the indwelling Holy The door of the temple within was locked by your own ego. You descended in your own
between Ghost.
being to the deeper underground, above which this temple raises itself. In this temple the Holy Ghost was still enthroned, but you had no more access to it. So all fellowship was broken. All secret
intercourse
was
cut
—your
off
sin
had
the fly. And while grieved, in seeking compassion reaches out after you again, you draw yourself back in your own sense of guilt.
wound you round as a spider the Holy Spirit, whom you
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