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To be near unto God - pagina 91
us.So the voice of God follows uswooafter throughand to win us for Himself. Lost, therefore, is each day in which the voice of God passes by us in the wind of the day, but leaves us unmoved and indifferent. \^'Tiile blessed in turn is each day in which in "'the wind of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 92
myafter the water brooks, so panteth soul after thee, O God," And here it is the direct opposite: ''Turn thee away from me, that soul may refresh itself." On the one hand intense longing for the joy of the presence of God, and on the other hand the crs^ of agony for deliverance from God's ...
To be near unto God - pagina 93
have long ignored, and they tremble in their hearts. In ordinary' life we are sufficient unto ourselves. extricate ourselves from our little difficulties. have the means at command to provide know how to rise against special needs. above simple adversities. And when they are overcome, the triumph ...
To be near unto God - pagina 95
way by those who all their life have been there is a deeply impressed by God's power. For b essed two-fold sense of God's presence, ^ow awful confellowship with God. And again in the the fears sciousness of God's terrible presence w'lth after that assail us. And if we were dealt this latter our s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 94
they have so long ignored him, adds to thet-errorof their fears.Butapprehension of dread affects the godly when faith fails him, and God momentarily lets him go. Then it seems that God loosens his hold on the soul and at the same time tightens his hold more firmly on t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 96
But if momentarily faith fails us, and the shield of Christ is taken away from before us, and in the midst of afflictions we feel ourselves suddenly face to face again with the naked majesty of God in his anger, the agony of soul in God's otherwise devoted children is more terrible than the child ...
To be near unto God - pagina 97
and fighting wrote the Psalms archers were few close range wa5 done by man against man at the foot, and clashing of eye to eye, of foot touching could not end until of swords. And such combats in his own one of the two assailants was bathed lite. In such times the shield was ones blood another in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 98
that he >moved it now this way, then that, and held it out against the attack. "The Lord is my shield" does not say therefore that God protects us from a distance and that he covers us without effort on our part. ''The Lord is my shield," is the language of faith. It springs from the conscious ...
To be near unto God - pagina 99
But this does not mean that we are to passively that God may cover us. The imagery of the shield allows no such interpretation. On the contrary, that God is a shield against disease and pestilence, against flood and fire, means that with the utmost of our powers we must apply every means of resis ...
To be near unto God - pagina 100
a shield on which the man who owns it has graved his blazon. This is a sign of personal recognition for those who know him, and itannounces who hides behind it. Thus the shield expresses the person and becomes something by itself. It becomes a personification. Great or small powers of resi ...
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