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To be near unto God - pagina 312
—imparts unto us the riches of his reconciliation, seeks us out as sinners, and makes us children of God. Only when Christ has made us children of God, does the knowledge of the Father become our blessed and glorious possession. But again, Christ does not come to us for the first time in t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 313
knowledge of God, on wiiich the knowledge the Father is built, comes to us from the Eternal Word. The knowledge of the Father is not a flower, that has been wafted down from the heavenly regions, and has been tied by Christ to the withered stem of human nature; but the withered state of our sinfu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 314
to the creation of our own nature, and to the creation of our own person. And this is the result. Thanks to our reconciliation in Christ the voice of God in nature and the voice of God in our conscience obtain a different sound. They increase in clearness and in significance. And by the opened ea ...
To be near unto God - pagina 315
we crave personal presence. Human nature consists of soul and body, and is only fully satisfied when fellowship of soul with soul is accompanied by physical presence. In the realm of glory, communion with God's saints will only be made perfect by the sight of one another in the glorified body. Fe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 316
are never separated from God. We ran not be an5rwhere and God not be near. He besets us behind and before. Whither shall we go from his Spirit, whither shall we flee from his presence. We can not escape the presence of God. *'If I make my bed in hell," sings David, Ps. 139. "behold Thou art there ...
To be near unto God - pagina 317
He is sovereign to grant liia to the soul or to withhold it. I^t him who received it, therefore, take thought, granted a that thereby he was privilege above all other privileges, a royal, heavenly and Divine grace of highest worth. And that we take this blessedness at this high worth will be evid ...
To be near unto God - pagina 318
ship with the Divine Being, For though, provided applied with utmost care, such losing of oneself in spiritual vision of the Infinite, as result of private prayer, can have a value of its own. It is not what continually being "near unto God" implies. It can not mean this because in holy, mystical ...
To be near unto God - pagina 319
into every interest of life, so we should allow the thought of God, the lifting up of the soul to God, the faith on, and the love for, God unceasingly to operate in and with everything. This prevents estrangement, and stra3dng away, and accustoms the soul to be continually "near unto God." This i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 321
.soul in truth the call of confidence goes forth: with thee." (Ps. 143:9 marg. "I hide me Loi reading) Hiding with God is not dwelling in his tent, or knowing the secret grace of the hidden walk. Hiding never indicates a fixed condition, but always something transient. seek shelter from a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 322
connected with the hour of terror; when the water has risen to the hps, when dark dread has suddenly overtaken the soul, when there is no way of escape, when dark night settles on the heart, when faith no longer trusts itself. Then there is an heroic taking hold of self, and as in the moment of d ...
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