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To be near unto God - pagina 363
knowthe Lord (I Sam. 3:7),itmeansexclusivelyoutward knowledge; and not the deeper knowledge of the Divine Being, which only springs from secret communion. By night Samuel heard himself called by name. He heard it as clearly and plainly as though Eli had called h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 364
their hearts or by external address to their ears. Of course this might have been continued, so that we, everyone personally for himself, might have heard the voice of God. But it has not pleased God so to do. It has seemed good to him first to give his revelation personally to prophets and apost ...
To be near unto God - pagina 365
and day by day are subject of the blessed, mystical operation of the same, and thereby have come to fixed, unshakable faith, you are amazed that in many families the Bible has been laid aside; that he whostillreadsand that you arefinds nothing special in it; bitterly r ...
To be near unto God - pagina 366
Grod; but they are not able to impart their faith to others, and to open the inner ear of their fellowmen to the holy mysticism of our God. There is a difference here. Among those who do not know the Lord, there are enemies of God who have stopped their ears to ever}^ voice of God; but there are ...
To be near unto God - pagina 369
How great then is the it. grace that has been shown to us! Prophets and Psalmists, Jesus and apostles lived in a mountainous countr}'. This accounts for the frequent references in Scripture to water and thirst. ''With Thee is the fountain of life." "All my springs are in Thee." ''Ho, every one th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 368
drop of saliva is dried up, and the swollen throat with difficulty allows the breath to pass through. With such a thirst it becomes a serious, and ever more anxious longing for moisture, and passionate craving for water; and he alone who so understands it, fathoms the depth of the longing after G ...
To be near unto God - pagina 370
broad shadows, and so afford the protection from the heat of the sun. Thus it is in the vallej'^ in the midst of the mountains, and metaphorically for God's child in the midst of troubles. When, languishing and hardpressed he can do nothing more. God is a fountain to him, and it is God who stretc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 367
are inclined to accept the sacred mysteries, provided they but discover that sacred power goes out from you. When thej- see no such power; and perceive that fruit remains wanting; that there is no higher seriousness of life; when they hear on the contrary, of hypocrites who behind fair exteriors ...
To be near unto God - pagina 371
such a place the Psahn is sung, that God is the fountain of hfe, everyone understands it, the dehghtful imagery appeals to them ail, and the pregnant thought enters into every soul, that without God we would perish in our miseries from thirst, and that God alone is the center, in whom all they wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 372
distances and separations in society and churches hold us apart; but spiritually and unseen, all that are born of God, gather together day by day at this One Fountain of life. And it is the one Christ who from his abundance quenches the thirst of all. And from being really one in Christ,an ...
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