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To be near unto God - pagina 425
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 426
not know this grace and does not see it. It has not even the faintest idea of what this grace might be. For this very reason it should be strongly guarded against, that on the ground of this privilege, the church should imagine that the Spirit does not operate in this as yet unregenerated world, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 428
that wonderfully assimilating power again which shows 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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 427
;Christ, the mystical body of which he is the Head in this mystical body the Holy Spirit dwells, first in the Head, and from this Head, along all articulations, tissues and veins inspires every one who as a living member has been incorporated in this Body, and lives in connection with this ...
To be near unto God - pagina 430
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 ing back what applies: ''He knocks, it shallAf ...
To be near unto God - pagina 429
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 431
Henceayoungchild 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 requ ...
To be near unto God - pagina 432
of heart shows itself, it is about at 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 owndisposition thisimpulse.But from this on to the moment in which the soul cries out: "O God, my ...
To be near unto God - pagina 433
between the life of the soul and life in the world has then been regulated. The little boat no longer drifts with the caprice of wind and wave-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 as ...
To be near unto God - pagina 434
egotism, and coveteous selfishness. A presumptuous 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, bu ...
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