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To be near unto God - pagina 344
heart. This thick darkness is the explanation of idolatry and of all heathen oppression. And Christ as in "a light," therefore Simeon rejoices so great, so beautiful, which having come down from the throne of heaven, lightens the darkened vision of the Gentiles. The densest darkness of all ...
To be near unto God - pagina 343
God shows this ever more clearl}' in the soul. favor in the personal life. Increasing brightness Less night and more day in our personal skies. in which ever more and ever clearer light is sown on our pathway. As an effect of this inner growth, there is greater exhibition of power. He who must tr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 345
but he gets farther and farther away from it. The transition is continuous from night into clearer day, until at length there is fellowship with God, which the world neither knows nor understands, but which to him is highest reality, the source, the ever free-flowing fountain of the strength of h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 346
so the}' said, and their heart still went out after the unknown Infinite. Now another step is taken. Even the appearance of godliness can be laid aside. Atheists have that among cultivated discovered especially classes they are represented by more people than they had dared to surmise. They obser ...
To be near unto God - pagina 348
it is said that at one time they themselves were without hope and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12). And this states painfully what we see all about us. With differences in degree many live year after year who think no more of God, and speak no more about him; no more religious books are found ...
To be near unto God - pagina 349
master of these present-day out-and-out people of the world. They still strive for higher things. They are lovers of art. They are zealous in works of philanthropy. They labor for general culture as they understand it. At times they dote with ideals that awaken the poetic talent in them. But far ...
To be near unto God - pagina 347
Many are atheists indifference. They care for nothing. Others are atheists, because in their career of sinful pleasure the}^ will not brook trouble from their consciences. Others again are atheists, because in their own wisdom they are too proud to bow before God. But each of these three groups m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 350
cultivate with young and old the supreme reality of life with God. This requires effort. must live in the world. God only calls us out of the world at death. And almost everything in the world draws us awayWefrom God.Not only wealth and temptation, butalso the incessan ...
To be near unto God - pagina 351
us by fixed ties, is collective. a collective life of the family, of the church, of callings and professions, and of nations. And that there is vital fellowship with God in the secret places of the soul, is not enough. In the family also, in the church and in social life fellowship with God must ...
To be near unto God - pagina 352
with you, as shepherd of my people," but far better: **I will walk in the midst of you" (Dutch version). The Lord going forth with his people, and at every step of the way the people being conscious of his nearness and of their fellowship with God. This can be fellowship from both sides, a walkin ...
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