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To be near unto God - pagina 404
thisabundant refreshing overtakes usspiritually.only overtakes him who exists spiritually, who inwardly leads a spiritual life and who can thirst after God as the hart thirsts after the water brooks. The many thousands who live in unconcern, without ever missing fellowship wi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 402
and shall one day show itself to be our real human existence, even as it is this already for God's angels. But it does follow from this that our earthly life must be continuouslyhigher, true,tossed and shaken and move ever up and down; and that it becomes richer, more interesting an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 406
learning to walk, until at last it succeeds when the ankles have become stronger. And so the growth goes on until full maturity is reached; and then there is strength for a hard run, the bold jump, the climb of a steep rock, the defiance of weariness and fatigue. All this is material. The growth ...
To be near unto God - pagina 405
ness are ended, and light shines forth again, and God returns to reveal himself to you in the fullness of his grace, then for you also there is abundant refreshing. And then you perceive and confess that had not God led you through this depth of forsakenness, you would never have experienced such ...
To be near unto God - pagina 407
observe by the side of sense and love of truth the rise of hatred against falsehood. To become ever more deeply conscious of the sense of justice, to see the seriousness of life increase. 0, it all presents the beautiful image of a going from strength to strength in the inner personality. In body ...
To be near unto God - pagina 408
With old people not infrequently there is shrinking and diminution. With the artist also there is a moment in hia life when he has reached his zenith, and the fullness and richness of his expression of art rather decreases than gains. In the intellectual domain there may be a few whose minds at 7 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 409
years, as a rule, stand so much higher? Is the oldest child in the family always farthest advanced in grace? Observe particularly certain defects in character, certain well-known weaknesses and little sins, that showed themselves unpleasantly in a child of God, ten or twenty years ago. Meeting su ...
To be near unto God - pagina 412
fessed ''childship"fromisnot "stolen goods". But apart that the most faithful chil-this, it is certain,dren of God are continually engaged in bitter combat, because there is still so much impurity in their hearts, which every time again is a stain upon their liv ...
To be near unto God - pagina 410
that first period of grace. There is considerable increase in knowledge, as well as in spiritual experience and in spiritual wisdom, but there is no acquisition of higher strength. Sometimes even there is a relapse, which is not survived except with much difficulty. And so there is considerable s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 411
purity of heart is the means of seeing God. For the others it is rather the way by which not to And these two can fail of high moral character. not be mentioned in the same breath. "Blessed are the pure in heart" is a word of Jesus, which was purposely spoken to the children of God, as Matt. 5 :8 ...
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