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To be near unto God - pagina 253
and learn to know with whom we have to do. provided always that we do not allow this Name to run dead in empty sound. Sin also accounts for The "Our Father" is said without any this. thought of him, or of what the Father name imIt is the plies, as though it were a dead term. curse of custom.w^hic ...
To be near unto God - pagina 252
Mydear Father, percalls him: once, that by this name a world of thought passes through his heart, and that from the high and holy places God comes nearer to the soul. The name is what I call someone, andand attention ceivesatname him whom I know. The name immediately c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 255
Another differenceis,thatamong women, evenwith children, the personal, baptismal name is used, and almost never the famil}" name, while among men as a rule the family name is in vogue, and the use of the pei-sonal name indicates a far higher degree of intimacj'. While ...
To be near unto God - pagina 254
we should neglect the same, can never be allowed. The name of the Lord must be hallowed. Inwith respect to thisdifferenceisirreconcilablyopposed to the hallowing of God's Name. 47NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE''THEHOLY GHOST." ...
To be near unto God - pagina 256
word Godindicates a highly-exalted Being, thatmankind. But by itself it has no meaning. It. is exclusive and reveals nothing. It It does not indicate a single relationship. only becomes significant and vital, when we put the word my before it, and speak of "my God", far transcends ...
To be near unto God - pagina 257
is no hollow sound, but an expression of the Being of God; even of that in him which we need for our comfort in the midst of these changEverj'thing about us comes ing scenes of life. and goes. We ourselves change continuously with eveiy changing thing around us. Scarcelyalsohas spri ...
To be near unto God - pagina 258
acknowledges that he should live for God, because God is his Lord, so that he exists solely and alone for the sake of God. In this revelation of the Name, the love of God that sought us and drew us, has made still further progress. Israel was taught to know the Father-name, which is by no means r ...
To be near unto God - pagina 259
tenderness, which no longer hides anything. More yet, the Father-name inckides the name of the child. With the Abba Father comes the surprising discovery that one is himself a child of God, and with it is disclosed the nobility of our race, the ro3'al exaltation above everj'thing that surrounds u ...
To be near unto God - pagina 260
This is salvation. Wherefore he who takes the confession of the Trinity as a mere doctrinal question, does not fathom by far what this revelation of Father, Son and Holy Ghost implies. Only the Triune God is the wealth and the delight of the soul. 48DWELLETH ON HIGH AND BEHOLDETH THE THING ...
To be near unto God - pagina 261
dressing the Highest Being. It betrays the tendency to show how intimately the man who prays holds converse with his God. And while this is done at the expense of reverence towards God, itleads to sin.Both what is exalted and what is ordinary have very naturally a certain trait in c ...
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