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To be near unto God - pagina 595
anxiety. Robust health or wasting disease imparts an altogether different stamp to your inner existence. After victory over self in the hour of temptation your fellowship with God is of an entirely different nature from what it is after fainting in sin and fall. Under all this the heart is always ...
To be near unto God - pagina 596
soul.Andallditions of soul influence uponthese transitions in age and conexert of themselves a necessary-our communion life with God. develops itself from what went before. Thus with the regular, undisturbed development of person there is a continual enrichment, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 597
He is not conscious of it, and therefore can not explain it. But it is evident even from his fear in the dark, or at strange sights and sounds. This fear shows that the child knows and perceives the existence of another world from that which he sees with his eyes. Hence his faith in the reality o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 598
praying with the child, so that the child feels more disturbed in his religious impulses than led and helped. It is equally cruel and painful, in the presence of the child, to be unsympathetic, rough and hard in holy things. This hurts the heart of the child, and then it does not take long for th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 599
108"MAKE ABODE WITH The sublime noteof joy withHIM." which the apos-tolate went out into the world, concentrated itself in the confession: ''The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." The Gospel did not first come in Bethlehem, it resounded already in Paradise, and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 600
shown, but in the New Testament the reality has appeared in the person of Christ. "The law, which is given by Moses" (John 1:17) does not refer to the ten commandments. The law here is the name of the whole Old Testament, taken as an instruction, a revelation, a word of God addressed to Israel. T ...
To be near unto God - pagina 601
declares that place,itGoddwells in the high and loftyimmediately adds thatthissame Goddown upon the children of men on earth. Heaven and earth are not intended to be sep-looksform a higher unity, so that the dwells siinultaneously bot ...
To be near unto God - pagina 603
that the reality of the flesh,when Jesus walkedAnd now, in the third place, the dwelling of God among us and in us in all parts of the earth. Our heart is made a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Our heart is the real Zion, and therefore our redeemed human heart is about on the e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 602
vealed in theamongflesh,i.e.in realityhe has dweltus.Hence Bethlehem is the real and actual return of God to earth, in order here on earth permanently to dwell with us and among us. This is the restoration of what was real in Paradise. And d ...
To be near unto God - pagina 606
evident in the case of Jacob the patriarch. But in lesser measure, occasionally such higher inspiration is still witnessed among us when it is not merely a dying in faith, not merely a falling asleep in Jesus, but when fully awake and with open eye it is a triumphant passing through the gate of e ...
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