To be near unto God - pagina 371

such a place the Psahn is sung, that God is the fountain of hfe, everyone understands it, the dehghtful imagery appeals to them ail, and the pregnant thought enters into every soul, that without God we would perish in our miseries from thirst, and that God alone is the center, in whom all they who fear his Name are one, and together If in

one life. ^ This has been brought closer yet in Christ. In C'lii'ist the Fountain of life has been borne into

live

There are life and into human nature. no two fountains of life, one in God and the other in Christ, but it is the one Fountain of Divine life, which springs up in the Father, has come close to us in the Son, and by the Holy Ghost flows

human

into our heart. When therefore Christ is not surely worshipped as God^ and knees are not bent This before him as God, Christianity is gone. One Christ is the Fountain of life for the entire, large village, if we may so express it, of the Church of the Lord on earth. No one has the water of life in his own home, but every morning and every evening every child of God must go out to this one fountain, which is in Christ, to fill the pitcher of his soul against the long day and the long night. This Fountain never disappoints. It alw^ays flows. Water of life is there to be found every moment with fresh supplies. There is never a shortage of it for anyone. There is abundance for And though our eye does not see it, invisibly all. throughout the whole world every true believer's

quenched from this one Fountain. Thereby this one Fountain of life in Christ is and remains the center for the life of all people and the fellowship for all hearts. All sorts of

thirst is

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