To be near unto God - pagina 614

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in holy manifestations of love reveals himself to you, and in you, as the living God. You realize that here all learning falls away; all dogma, all formularies, everything that is external and abstract; everything that translates itself into words, that in the word it may dry up and wither. It is not your idea, not your understanding, not your thinking, not your reasoning, not even your confession, that can quench this thirst. This ardent longing goes out after God himself, until in your soul's transport of love, you feel in your own heart the warmth of the Fatherheart of God. It is not the name of God, but God himself whom the soul thirsts after, and of whom it can not bear to be deprived; God himself in the outshining of his life. And this outshining of It must be assimihis life must permeate you. lated in the blood of your soul. The Psalmist sought this in the Sanctuary. He was from Israel. And in Israel the clear, rich, full enjoyment of God's presence was confined to Zion. God had chosen Zion as the place where he would give himself to be enjoyed in this fullness by his people. At that time the life of the world drew itself too mightily away from God. And therefore Idol upon idol filled the world. the presence of the Lord was symbolically centered between the cherubim on Zion. To transfer this to the congregations in church-buildings in our behalf is to cut the nerve of this Psalm. For though there is indeed much in our sanctuaries that draws us to God, and much in the world and even in our homes that draws us away from God, this again would prove itself to be the stimulus from without. And what this Psalm 610

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