To be near unto God - pagina 482
What
again
varieties
what
in
each
of
these
groups
difference again in growth, leaf, color
and
in fragrance. Does not every more richly developed rose addre^ us as a something by itself,
with a charm and beauty
Such
all
its
own?
the case in the whole creation of God. He calls every star in the firmament by name, and this implies the expression of an own being.. And on the earth every mountain-line differs, and every animal, even every insect, as well as every vegetable and food that springs from the ground. And in like manner every one of the children of
men
is
"after his own kind;" every race, every people, every family and every family-member differs from every other. No mother is ever mistaken in her children. And so it is also in the spiritual. The Holy Spirit divideth to every man severally as he will, (I Cor. 12:11) or to express it still more strongly: one can not be a standard for an other. Paul who was himself an Apostle refuses to be this. And he declares is
every
tribe,
with utmost emphasis: Every man, i. e. each individual, hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that (I Cor. 7:7).
So life,
it is,
and so
if
shall
it
it
be
must
be, because our spiritual
real,
is
not our work, but a
work of God. It is a difference as between writing and printing. Wliat comes from the press is in all the copies of the same work precisely alike. Every man's handwriting on the other hand exhibits a character of its own. It is the difference between the products of nature and the 478
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1918
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 620 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1918
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 620 Pagina's