To be near unto God - pagina 565

of our soul to look for God's throne not in our proximity, nor yet underneath, but above us. The heavens are God's throne and the earth is his footstool. We look up to the heavens, from whence light comes to us, where God's stars twinkle in the firmament, from whence rain descends to us and waters the earth and spreads blessing all around us. But dimensions here do not count. The heavens of our God are not of our materiality, they do not count with our distances, they are not comprised in the measure of the finite. Once they will open themselves to us from a direction where we did not expect it. They will not be where we surmised it. But in unknowTi glory they will open their gates to us. And into this glory, when he ascended, Jesus has entered.

"Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens!" exclaimed Isaiah (64:1) in great distress of soul. For, taken in its deepest sense, our niisery consisted in the fact, that by its sinful degeneracy our world was shut off from the heaven of our God. The holy above and the unholy round about us and in our own heart. And then there was every time a looking up to heaven above which seemed like brass,

and whose closed gates and windows scarcely

allowed our prayers to pass through. We were disposed to that heaven. We were designed for Only a life in communion with that heaven it. could impart the Divinely intended lustre to our We were not able to existence here on earth. climb up to those heavens, in order to unlock All we could do was to look up to their gates. 561

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