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To be near unto God - pagina 583
seeks his holy thinks of him, goes out to him, and On the other hand Gods love is fellowship.not his child can forget him, and with in think of him, and be engaged it depends everything save him; when, as far as order on us, he is the forsaken one. For, the heart deeply and strongly to imp ...
To be near unto God - pagina 584
you pawn away your loveto your own self, or to as your idol, to the world, or to demoniac spirits, the Scripture always and unconditionally condemns this as a drawing away of self from God, as a violation of faithfulness to God, as a wandering away from the Holy One, and as a desertion fro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 585
and no hypocrisy. His all-penetrating glance puts every cover aside. And these two taken together account for the fact, that sensitiveness in Divine love is far more strongly moved to jealousy, than strongest human passion can ever arouse brooding envy. When we are not remembered by our friends i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 587
enjoyment. But when you consider nearness unto God, thinking of God, being engaged with God, from the side of God who loves you, an entirely different note mingles itself in this love-song. Then you can not and will not grieve the Holy spirit. Then it is not your soul alone which seeks God, but f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 586
highness and your glory? And is it no violation of yourself and of your God when you discard this holy urgency of love, and play with it, and for the sake of religious recreation spasmodically return to it, only to withdraw yourself presently from it again, that in your innermost soul you may eng ...
To be near unto God - pagina 588
phenomena appear, and consequently in mutual relation. Whether in the evening the sky shows itself bright or dull red, depends upon the greater or lesser density with which mists or vapours place themselves between our eye and the red glow of the setting sun. And so in the world of spirits, an en ...
To be near unto God - pagina 589
In our twentieth century, however, the table turns again. There is once more a reveille, but not in the Christian domain. It is far more a reveille of mystic, religious feeling, entirely independent of Christianity, for the most part rejecting the way of truth and seeking ways of its own, and thu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 590
what criticism this demands at and what duty this lays upon them.selvestheir hands,They maintaintheir stand. They do this by grace that is within, and by the spiritual impulse that operates in them. Though they should have to die for Jesus, they can not forsake his Cro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 592
than he who has drifted with weather and wind tide. But it brings weariness. It wears on the mind. And the aftermath of this exhaustion involves the danger that the spirit of the world outwits j^ou, and makes you dread still more a new course, which is attended with danger, perhaps of death. If, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 591
behalf of these wanderers, involuntarily, ascends from their troubled hearts. Even in the deepest parts of their inward life they undergo the noticeable influence of this change in the signs of the times. To be near unto God and to continue there is far easier when everything around you warmly ca ...
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