To be near unto God - pagina 158

If the knowledge of God is eternal life, Divine knowledge can not be something apart from life.

Do

not forget, eternal life is not life hereafter. It is a life which does not spring from the cistern, but from the fountain. Such knowledge of God

which

is itself eternal life is unthinkable, thereapart from practical life. When a will operates in all our works, and when our works are only good when they conform to the will of God, it is evident that there is a connection between the knowledge of God and the doing of

fore,

his will.

The ox knoweth his owner, Isaiah tells us, but Israel does not understand. would say: horse knows his rider. The draft-ox is not much But how does he know his used among us. owner, or the horse his rider? Certainly in part

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by the eye and by the ear, but even more by the manner in which they are treated. When the rider comes up from behind, so that the horse does not see him, and utters no word or sound, so that the animal does not hear him, the thoroughbred knows his rider at once, and knows immediately whether his rider or a stranger springs into the saddle. A good riding-horse knows the will of his rider. He knows it even so well that at length horse and rider become one, and on the field of battle the horse will do his rider's wish, even with loosened bridle. Thus by careful training the animal has obtained such knowledge of his owner that to him it has become a living subordinate instrument. Likewise the child of God that has lived according to God's will, and at the hand of that will itself has conformed himself to it. has come 154

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