To be near unto God - pagina 550

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THOU TRIEST MINE HEART, THAT IS WITH THEE."

IT

Many

causes can interrupt the secret walk with to the pious mind is, that God withdraws his face, in order, by the want of it, to make you thirst more strongly after it. The most common is, that earthly interests so engage the attention and keep it absorbed that the soul is ensnared by them. And the most offensive to the soul is that actual sin came in the way, which not only broke your fellowship with God, but continued to prevent the return to the nearness of the Holy One.

God.

The most mysterious

Actual sin alone has mention here. A word, a deed, of which you felt, when you faced it, that it would be a sin to you, and which you failed to evade. A sinful tendency, a sinful mood, especially a sinful desire, can seriously affect the fellowship with God, but the working of it is different. For on this side of the grave this sinful inclination will stay by us, but provided it is not cherished, this by itself will not prevent the secret walk with God. The secret walk with God is always in Christ, from which it is evident that we do not

come

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God

as one

who

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holy, but as one

who

himself is a sinner. But it is different with a Then there was sin that has been committed. consent, permission and the doing of it. Then at once the light of God's benign countenance was gone. Then on the side of God it become dark, in

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