To be near unto God - pagina 260

down to us. soul to him.

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is, that we lift up our with the first. The second follows. In Paradise after the fall God comes down, to Adam, and this condescension on the part of God goes on thoughout all Revelation. This coming down is made perfect in the manger of Bethlehem in behalf of our entire race. At the great feast of Pentecost in Jerusalem God the

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Holy Ghost comes down into human hearts. This descent of God still continues with every soul that passes from death into life. Then God comes to take up his abode in the heart. Then he prays for us, and in us with groanings that are unutterable, and he who dwelleth on high dwells at the same time in the contrite heart. Parallel with this runs the lifting up of our soul to God. "Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul" (Ps. 25:1). What we seek is "to dwell in the house of the Lord," to take refuge in him as our "high Tower," and to live our life apart from the world in order to dwell with the Holy One. "Seek the things that are above where Christ is" (Col. 3:1) and to you will be given "walks to w^alk among those that are above" (Zech. 3:7). When God comes down to you, the idol of self, even as Dagon's image, must be thrown down. But when this is done, and your spirit contrite, and you have come down from your imagined heights to humbler perceptions of yourself, the wall of separation falls down, the dis-

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tance shortens, and the moment arrives when you God is with you in your own heart, and that von cannot live otherwise than near unto

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