To be near unto God - pagina 82

guished from this is what we think, what we picture to ourselves, what we study out in our minds, what we take as the abstract world of thought. interpret all this to be an unreal world, the center of which is God. An infinite Being who

We

exists merely in our thought, in our mind, in our idea, with whom there is no fellowship except along the avenue of thought. But this provides no mysticism for the heart; no uniting of heart to fear the name of God; no experience of secret fellowship with God. If God does not exist outside of our thought, the self-sufficient soul can not come near to God, nor can it dwell in his tent.

Holy writ protests Such was not what Psalmists and prophets experienced of God. They found Him as the real living One who came near unto them, and bare them on the arms of his everlasting compassions. He was a God imto them whose love they felt as a fire burn in the marrow of their bones, with whom they found peace, comfort and rest for their weary soul as they realized Every deeply

spiritual life in

against this danger.

that

He

sheltered

and allowed them

them

in the covert of his wings to abide under the shadow of

the Almighty.

This thrice blessed state of mind and heart can not be analyzed. It must be experienced. It must be tasted. And having it, it must be guarded lest it is lost again or interrupted. But it can not be analyzed, interpreted or explained. That

would give place to the wedge

of criticism and fosters it. The way to is to learn that self-sufficiency deceives. High-minded self-sufficiency is the canker which

the obtain it chill

warmth that

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