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To be near unto God - pagina 385
again to the world, in the life of which the rest of the day is spent. Such is the existence of him who out of every twenty-four hours of the day spends eight in bed, more than fifteen in the world, and altogether scarcely half an hour with God. He has often tried to retire half an hour for praye ...
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But gradually there comes a disclosing. We begin to live a little more with and in our own heart. And when we enter our heart suflSciently deeply, we find there God, the Holy Ghost, who has compassion on us. This of itself brings us to a life of two phases; one outward and the other inward. But t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 387
than when again and againitthrows distractivediscord into the harmony of the Psalm of life. And to break with sin, and to lose self again in worship and blessed fellowship becomes of itself the rising impulse of the heart. 71"THY OVERSIGHT HATH PRESERVEDMY ...
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Mymysoul after thee, God. soul for the living God" (Psalm 42). "I remember these things and pour out my soul in me." Again: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me." The Scripture makes no distinctionso panteththirsteth for In verse 4: ...
To be near unto God - pagina 389
ously wrought, and in addition to this the ego And in Job 10:9-12: that was made in secret. 'Thou hast made me as the clay; Thou hast poured me out as milk, and curdled me like Thou hast clothed me with skin and cheese. flesh, and hast fenced (crocheted) me with bones and sinews," and over and ab ...
To be near unto God - pagina 391
our moral existence as man is constantly under the supervision of this selfsame God, who judges us at the bar of our own conscience, as often as we go contrary to his holy will. And from these two there arises gradually the still higher sense, that "God's oversight of our spirit" bears not only a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 390
the calm and blessed feeling of assurance takes hold of us, that by day and by night, in ordinary and in extraordinary circumstances we are watched over, cared for and looked after by God.Wecometo discover that the inner life of in God's hand. That he has charge of That his c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 392
isunder his holy supervision.Herevives in uswhat is ready to languish. He bends straight in us what threatens to become crooked. And as a mother cares for her babe in outward things, so does our faithful Father provide against every difficulty and every need of our sou ...
To be near unto God - pagina 394
limited time and in a given measure. Sympathy, inclination, preference, affection, all blossom with silvery blossoms, but never dominate all of life, do not change the ground of existence, and have no all-deciding and ever-abiding results. Faith in the Son of God stands far above everything else ...
To be near unto God - pagina 393
—72'EVERY ONE WHICH SEETH THE SON." The one believething ofon Christ.allTheothers among men is to Scripture announces inway that God has given his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting lif ...
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