To be near unto God - pagina 220
or as a woman missionary in the foreign field. False dualism which relegates the mother or the servant to common life and pronounces the nurse sacred, does not feed the love for God, but poisons it. Three forms of sin in this connection lower human life: Neglect, misuse and abuse of our powers. I ...
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Jesus demands the exhibition of our strength. that all the powers that are entrusted to us, on the condition of responsibility to him who gave them, shall be exercised in such a way that in their working the love for God shall show itself as the dominant element. Do not take this in a sickly-spir ...
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sure confidence that he will supply all our needs, but slaving for the sake of providing the means oneself. It is for money and not for God. And along this line the third sin io easily committed, even the yet worse abitse of one's talents in the face of God and of his sacred claims. O, who can co ...
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life awaj- as long as you do not know that craving after the fullness of love for the Eternal which can not rest until it loves God also withyourall itsstrength. 42"HE THAT LOVETH NOTNOT KnowledgeofGodisKNOWETHGOD." eternal ...
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and overflowing with Divine sweetbe apprehended in the clear consciousness, and be poured over as it were mto the doctrinal standards of the Church of Christ, and ever morefullmustness,of courseinto our personal confession. Unless this is done, mystical corrupti ...
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Does this begin with you, so that you love and that afterwards God loves you? Far from it. Love never begins with you. Back of first,thefirststirringsof lovethat evermovedthewas God who put it there. Neither can you ever forgive from yoursel ...
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forever in the Father-house above, this and this alone is the mighty problem of life which immediately touches our relation to God and our knowledge of the Eternal. Thus the riddle of the world and that of our soul always comes down again to this one inquiry: Is there grace for me also, and forgi ...
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isthat?Whenitsays:Hethat loveth not,itmeans: He who does not Hve by love; he who is not governed by love; he who does not rejoice in love, and has no love that can endure the test of fire. And love is put to this fiery test, not with respect ...
To be near unto God - pagina 228
This does not include experimental knowledge of God, which comes to ii3 personally from spiritual experience, from communion of saints and secret fellowship with God. The knowledge of God which comes to us from without is majestic. Confining ourselves to what Christian creeds.nature brings ...
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ized and endowed with instinct by its Maker, so you should much more love your neighbor as man, because God has created him after his image and has endowed him with wonderful talents and gifts.If all this has been corrupted and spoiled and has become hopelessly satanic, so that there is no ...