To be near unto God - pagina 108

are out of the light of God's countenance and are striving to regain it. Even among us a kind face,

beaming with sympathy, is irresistable and draws out the light from the face of others, which expresses itself

first

of all in a generous smile.

much stronger with the Lord. We can not look at God in the light of his counBut

this is

tenance without having the gloom of our faces give place to higher relaxation. For in the light of God's countenance we know Him. When it shines out, his spirit draws near to make us see, observe and feel what God is to us. Not in a doctrinal way, not in a point of creed, but in utterances of the spirit of unnamable grace and mercy,

overwhelming love and tenderness, and of Divine compassion, which enters every wound of the soul at once and anoints it with holy balm. The light of God's countenance shining on us compasses us about and closes us in. It lifts us of

up into a higher sphere

of light.

And

as

on the

wings of it we feel ourselves carried by the care, the providence and almighty power of God. In the light of God's countenance everything, our whole life included, becomes transparent to us, and through every Golgotha we see the glory that looms up from it. The light of God's countenance shines through us and leaves nothing covered in us of the sins that are covered by grace. This can not be otherwise, for the moment we are aware that the light of God's face shines through our person, all hiding of sin is futile. Differently than X-rays, it shines through our whole heart and life, including our past. Nothing is spared. It is an all-penetrating light which nothing can arrest. 104

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