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To be near unto God - pagina 421
and wilderness on earth, but also in sun, stars. Wherever there is a creature, the Spirit operates in it. Without the operation of the Spirit no force of nature is even thinkable. And this spirit, which thus operates in every creature, is none other than the Holy Spirit, who is to be adored in th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 424
that wonderfully assimilating power again which itself so gloriously in every reveille. Of course, this Body is not identical with the visible church. But the visible church also is not alive save by the Holy Ghost, who, flowing out from the Head of the invisible Body of the Lord, keeps the churc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 425
of the immediate meeting of the Ego of God and the ego of the heart in the mysticism of grace. We have heard of the holy Apostle, and in reading his Epistles we have a certain fellowship with the Man of Tarsus. But it would be something entirely different if we lived with St. Paul for a whole yea ...
To be near unto God - pagina 426
Of two things one:either the child ofGodhasthis fellowship, or he longs for it, he prays for it, he waits for it all the day long (Ps. 25:5 Dutch version). In conversion it is a seeking for whatwas not as yet possessed. ing back what has been apphes: knocks, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 428
disposition of heart shows itself, it is about at this age that God himself takes mother's task in hand, and allures the lad or the young girl into a first personal prayer, which is born from an ownimpulse.But from this on to the moment in which the soul cries out: "O God, my God," ...
To be near unto God - pagina 427
Hence a youngchild learns prayer to Jesusmorethan direct prayer to the Most High God. He does not express in his little prayer anything original. He only repeats something, and when he first weaves something into his prayer himself, it is not worship, but the request for some ...
To be near unto God - pagina 431
way, and revealing himself to us in mystical sensations which have a character of their own and bear an original stamp. He knows us and we are known of him, such as is not possible with another person who is differently constituted than ourselves. He is the "One Sun," which glistensOnly th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 429
between the life of the soul and life in The little the world has then been regulated. boat no longer drifts with the caprice of wind and w^ave-beat. A rudder has been provided, a compass has been taken aboard, the lee-boards can be let down sideways. And thus the soul can direct its own course a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 430
egotism, and coveteous selfishness, tuous claim of God for oneself. ''My God" with no thought of others. This sin in prayer is wondrously overcome in the "Our Father." This alway prays: Not give me, but give us our daily bread; not forgive me, but forgive us our debts not deliver me, but deliver ...
To be near unto God - pagina 433
The main point with it all is, that our nature has been so created and disposed, that it prefers sight. And that it carries this even into the spiritual desire to see, rather than to arrive at insight by exercise of thought, is not a defect in us, neither is it a result of sin, but a Divine insti ...
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