To be near unto God - pagina 562

Be, therefore, on your guard.

become aware

As soon

of spiritual coolness, as

as

you

soon as you

perceive that this, that or the other thing renders difficult or prevents you from being, and continuing, near unto God, then consider what influences you are becoming subject to, what unnoticed inworkings take place in your soul. Shake yourself free from them all. And do not rest until you have found your hiding place close by the heart of God. Hesitation, procrastination will not do. Jesus broke the spell immediately, and at once repulsed Peter with the words: "Get thee behind me, Satan!" Brief, forceful and aggressive! Thus only the snare breaks, and you can escape. it

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"OH,

THAT THOU WOULDEST REND THE HEAVENS."

Ascension day is a Divine memorial day. the glorious memorial day of our Savior.

It is

The

work of redemption which was to be accomplished on earth was now finished. Not only his bearing of the form of a servant; not only the way of the man of sorrows; not only entering in upon eternal death, but also the sojourn of forty more days on earth, in order to consecrate his apostles to the holy, gigantic task, which awaited them from now on.

These forty days again were a sacrifice of love brought by Jesus. The glory of heaven allured him. The place at the right hand of God called 658

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