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To be near unto God - pagina 364
drawn themselves to cell or hermitage. But though they could banish the world from the cloister, they took their hearts with them, and it was the heart itself that obstructed the way to closer fellowship with God. This was possible in Paradise, and has become such again in the congregation of the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 366
some oneconsults his father about a business scheme with some man, the father's question in reply: "Do you know him," will mean: Are you sure that he is honorable, reliable and trustworthy as to his business ability? This two-fold significance of knowing anyone personally must be reckoned ...
To be near unto God - pagina 367
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 368
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 369
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 famihes the Bible has been laid aside; that he who still reads it, finds nothing special in it; and that you are bitterly resisted, when you mai ...
To be near unto God - pagina 370
God; but theyare not able to impart their faithand to open the inner ear of their fellowmen to the holy mysticism of our God. There is a difference here. Among those who do toothers,know the Lord, there are enemies who have stopped their ears to every notof ...
To be near unto God - pagina 373
known an3rthmg about it. How great then grace that has been shown to usistheIProphets and Psalmists, Jesus and apostles lived mountainous country. This accounts for the frequent references in Scripture to water andin a"With Thee is the fountain of life." ...
To be near unto God - pagina 372
last 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 af ...
To be near unto God - pagina 371
are inclined to accept the sacred mysteries, provided they but discover that sacred power goes out from you. When they 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 p ...
To be near unto God - pagina 374
cast broad shadows, and so afford the traveler protection from the heat of the sun. Thus it is in the valley 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 Go ...
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