To be near unto God - pagina 119
And when
the "Cultivate the the atmosphere except as God
eged to know
matter is pressed, and it is said, secret walk with God and drink in of the life above," no one responds, draws him. And if we are privilthis secret fellowship, it but shows
what excellent grace has been bestowed upon us. Let us therefore with St, Paul bow the knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that this glorious privilege maj^ be not taken from us, but that from this secret walk abounding might may continuall}'
be granted to strengthen us in the
inner man. 23
"TO
WHOM
IS
THE ARM OF THE LORD
REVEALED?" No
thought
lifts
power of material
us more
interests
securely'' above the and above the tempta-
appetites than the confession, "God from which of itself the second flows, worships Him can not and must not in spirit and in truth. This excludes from God and from the worship of his name everything that is material, sensual or what is tion of the is a Spirit;" that he who do so except
to form. God is a Spirit. This liberat-es the soul from every chain that might bind or oppress it contrary to its nature; always on condition, of course, that God, who is Spirit, is worshipped in spirit and in truth with all the love of the heart. That God is Spirit brings all idolatry to naught, ail creature-worship, and dismisses every sensual horror which idolatry brought with it and which hastened the downfall of the nations of antiquity. Not to analyze the riches
bound
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1918
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 620 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1918
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 620 Pagina's