To be near unto God - pagina 18

will-power can be of use to us only when we can apply them to good and noble ends. Satan is the 'most strongly developed personality conceivable. Any one can train himself in sin. Hence the question remains: Have we developed the traits of

and powers

of personality, which are in of eternal blessedness? If not, at death, they will be of no use to us. Hell is full of strongly developed characters and cultivated talents. But they afford no pleasure, but rather add pain to pain, because it all goes without God, and increases no riches in him. Like sets of fine sharp tools by themselves, they are utterly useless. Thus the heart can only speak of possessions, when such powers and capacities have

character,

harmony with the

life

been so trained that they

will

permit admittance

into heaven, will make us feel at home there, and will enable us to exert heavenly influences there. These heavenly properties are never acquired save through fellowship with God. From God as the Source, the powers of the Kingdom must operate in us that will entitle us to heavenly citizenship. In Christ we must be reconciled to God. The Father must come and dwell with us.

For then the new life will be quickened in us, which draws its nourishment from heaven and imparts higher powers, and fills the soul with all the fullness of God. Thus to be rich in God is to own God himself; to be a temple of the Holy Ghost; to carry Him, the Holy and Glorious One, in the heart wherever we go; and every evening and every morning to be refreshed in the inner •

man at the fountain of the Water of Life. Many obstacles prevent the full enjoyment these blessings here.

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of this is the privilege of

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