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To be near unto God - pagina 324
les, the hope of eternal life dawns on the soul of the believer, and he also seeks to do away-but by expecting nothing more from strength and powers, and by resigning everything into the hand of God. Even as he who is incurably ill, suffers dreadfully, is no more able to endure it, and exp ...
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them: "the calves of the lips" (Hosea 14:2), or "the fruit of the lips" (Is.57:19) by which to indicate clearly the siscnificance of an offering which such prayer implies. From the account of the first fratricide we learn that there is an offering which God accepts and one which he rejects. And n ...
To be near unto God - pagina 328
he refuses to hear; even when the saintliest worshipper pours out his soul before him; even when his own well-beloved Son cries unto Him from the cross. This is the comfort of the cry from the cross for every soul that cries and gets no answer. Otherwise the silence of God might bring the soul to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 330
means to quicken tenderer love. How much the more is this true of him, who himself is love and who by putting a cloud between us and his Majesty, leads us up to the higher and far richerenjoyments of love. 60"HIS WAYS ARE EVERLASTING" With the passing of another year another boundar ...
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not the only cause of the failure to obtain an hearing of prayer. The most devout saints in Israel complained again and again that their prayer was not heard, which was a source of deep grief to their hearts; and their grief was proof that their prayers had been earnest and sincere. The Lama Saba ...
To be near unto God - pagina 329
of self. God must lend help and assistance and deliverance. And so it comes to appear at times that God is and exists merely for our sakes, for our benefit, to deliver us from trouble. But love Love for God in prayer is, that is different. first of all we are concerned with the things that glorif ...
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never be lost from sight.we can notIt is so wide that possibly explain the connection be-tween our time and God's eternity, though we that there must be such a relation, andknowWhenthere is. we die in Christ we shall enter upon an eternity of everlasting ...
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and presentlyin the future, whereby our short appears to be almost endlessly long and great. Even the single year that is past seemed so long, that only a few of its significant dajng are clearly remembered, and the new year just begun makes an impression as though it could never end. Our ...
To be near unto God - pagina 333
Whatever the year never understood from itself. Before God, all of human life, with all its years, forms one plan, one end, one whole. This plan, of our life did not begin at birth but traces its and destiny be understood.of lifelinesmaybe,it isback to th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 334
and appointment always accompanies us. not what would smile on us this year, but what must happen with us, for the accomplishment of his plan regarding us, determines what the year will bring. And why it must be so and not otherwise we can not understand now, buthis planAndwe ...
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