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To be near unto God - pagina 348
it is said that at one time they themselves were without hope and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12). And this states painfully what we see all about us. With differences in degree many live year after year who think no more of God, and speak no more about him; no more religious books are found ...
To be near unto God - pagina 349
master of these present-day out-and-out people of the world. They still strive for higher things. They are lovers of art. They are zealous in works of philanthropy. They labor for general culture as they understand it. At times they dote with ideals that awaken the poetic talent in them. But far ...
To be near unto God - pagina 347
Many are atheists indifference. They care for nothing. Others are atheists, because in their career of sinful pleasure the}^ will not brook trouble from their consciences. Others again are atheists, because in their own wisdom they are too proud to bow before God. But each of these three groups m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 350
cultivate with young and old the supreme reality of life with God. This requires effort. must live in the world. God only calls us out of the world at death. And almost everything in the world draws us awayWefrom God.Not only wealth and temptation, butalso the incessan ...
To be near unto God - pagina 351
us by fixed ties, is collective. a collective life of the family, of the church, of callings and professions, and of nations. And that there is vital fellowship with God in the secret places of the soul, is not enough. In the family also, in the church and in social life fellowship with God must ...
To be near unto God - pagina 352
with you, as shepherd of my people," but far better: **I will walk in the midst of you" (Dutch version). The Lord going forth with his people, and at every step of the way the people being conscious of his nearness and of their fellowship with God. This can be fellowship from both sides, a walkin ...
To be near unto God - pagina 353
tendency of the heart, not to seek, but to be delivered from, God, the favor of God to usward turns into holy antipathy. Thus the pathway of life is walked with God in enmity and in bitterness, and the Holy Spirit is grieved. This does not happen with a child of the world. He does not walk with G ...
To be near unto God - pagina 354
undous, and we hold ourselves fast bj^ God for protection against evil. And we may stumble, but even in the act of it, refuge will be taken with the unseen Companion who walks at our side. He will be invoked for forgiveness and help. And he who knoweth whereof we are made, will show mercy ...
To be near unto God - pagina 355
been upborne by the example, sympathy and fellowship of what is called the people of God. This is a sacred appellation, which no single group may arbitrarily appropriate to itself, and which is only real where God himself walks in the midst of those who share his favor. We are at once aware in fa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 356
in the midst of us, because he is the source of our light, of our strength and of the inspiration of our hfe."THAT THOU MAYEST CLEAVE UNTO HIM." Sin nowhere makes more rapid advances than in religion. Religion is the service of the Triune God. It is the highest and best that enriches the h ...
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