To be near unto God - pagina 23

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This means worship withoutward forms, directly spiritually, from heart to heart. If then we are in sympathy with David's ardent longing to dwell in the house of the Lord, we must no longer apply For this to an earthly house or visible church. this only brings us back to the dispensation of The temple of God is no more an shadows. allegorical house of wood and stone, but the great palace of our God in the heavens. For heaven is God's dwelling place. There is the palace of his glory, the Tabernacle of his Majesty. When Jesus "Our Father, who art in teaches us to pray: heaven," he detaches the soul from every material truth (John 4:21).

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the heart on high, in order that of the Majesty of God

we should no more think in terms of earth.

To

dwell in the house of the Lord all the days means to be so vividly conscious of our fellowship with the living God that every morning, noon and night our thoughts go out to Him, that we hear his voice in the soul, that we are aware of his holy Presence within, experience his workings in our heart and in our conscience, and that we carefully avoid the things which we would not dare to do if God stood before us and spoke to us. of our life

The Psalmist goes still one step further, whereby he clearly shows that through the shadows, the faithful under the Old Covenant grasped the "I will make my higher reality. For he adds: refuge under the covert of Thy wings." It is not enough to think of God's glory in the heavens, to dwell in his holy temple, to walk among the

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