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To be near unto God - pagina 593
Always let them feel that you care for their eternal welfare. In order that you may do this, do not separate yourself, but take part in actual life. Be at home in what the things of the world, under God's providence, provide of interest and beauty. Al-ways keep open a space where you can m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 594
circles is superficial, which brings the kindly smile to the face, but does not evoke it from the heart. Our life with God can not subject itself to the mechanical. Even as in nature, the utterance of life in the spiritual realm is organic. And as every tree unfolds a different leaf, and every st ...
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 ...
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