To be near unto God - pagina 379

ness of the blessedness which is eternal, and Te therefore the word "continually" in the Deum expresses admirably the characteristic of the super-earthly, of what is devoted to God, even the kingdom of heaven. It sounds paradoxical to us, when the apostle "Pray without ceasing," or to: exhorts us to: "Rejoice evermore," or to hear the Psalmist say: 'I have set the Lord always before me" (Ps.l6:8), "Nevertheless I am continually with thee" (Ps. 73: 23), "Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord" (Ps.2o:^

but in connection with this unbroken note of life, he who is no stranger to the secret walk with God, feels the sacred stress of this "continually," "without ceasing," and "at all For "continually" sometimes means: times."

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makes the round of her patients. But such meaning here. When the Psalmist is not the sings: "Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord," the word in Hebrew does not mean "now and then," but "always and without ceasing." It means to "The eyes of my soul are never turned away say from God, but are always looking toward my Father who is in heaven." It means that in our secret walk with God we do not bring God down into time, but allow God to lift us up into the ually

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Secret fellowship with God is the foreeternal. taste of the heavenly. It is not a musical instrument from which tones are elicited from time to time, and meanwhile remains closed, but a selfplaying organ that but waits for our ears to hear

heavenly melodies. not say, that prayer without ceasing, always to be blessed in God, alwaj^s to be looking unto

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