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To be near unto God - pagina 320
the waters in the flood of destruction that came upon the people began to rise; without waiting for an answer to their cry, they should have sought refuge with God. The people did not do this. They trusted in their own strength andAnd then instead underestimated the danger. of the people c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 323
God the battle is no longer one between the world, but between the world and God. He who hides with God commits his cause to God. He withdraws himself from it. All his support and hope is the righteousness of his And only when this has openly been Lord. shown, he comes out from his hiding again i ...
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69"THOU DOST NOT HEAR ME." True prayer calls for an answer from God. But not all prayer is genuine. There is a great difference between formal prayer of the lips and earnest outpouring of soul in supplication.Form-prayer however should not be underestimated. And It implies a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 324
les, the hope of eternal life dawns on the soul of the believer, and he also seeks to do away-but by expecting nothing more from strength and powers, and by resigning everything into the hand of God. Even as he who is incurably ill, suffers dreadfully, is no more able to endure it, and exp ...
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them: "the calves of the lips" (Hosea 14:2), or "the fruit of the lips" (Is.57:19) by which to indicate clearly the siscnificance of an offering which such prayer implies. From the account of the first fratricide we learn that there is an offering which God accepts and one which he rejects. And n ...
To be near unto God - pagina 328
he refuses to hear; even when the saintliest worshipper pours out his soul before him; even when his own well-beloved Son cries unto Him from the cross. This is the comfort of the cry from the cross for every soul that cries and gets no answer. Otherwise the silence of God might bring the soul to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 330
means to quicken tenderer love. How much the more is this true of him, who himself is love and who by putting a cloud between us and his Majesty, leads us up to the higher and far richerenjoyments of love. 60"HIS WAYS ARE EVERLASTING" With the passing of another year another boundar ...
To be near unto God - pagina 327
not the only cause of the failure to obtain an hearing of prayer. The most devout saints in Israel complained again and again that their prayer was not heard, which was a source of deep grief to their hearts; and their grief was proof that their prayers had been earnest and sincere. The Lama Saba ...
To be near unto God - pagina 329
of self. God must lend help and assistance and deliverance. And so it comes to appear at times that God is and exists merely for our sakes, for our benefit, to deliver us from trouble. But love Love for God in prayer is, that is different. first of all we are concerned with the things that glorif ...
To be near unto God - pagina 331
never be lost from sight.we can notIt is so wide that possibly explain the connection be-tween our time and God's eternity, though we that there must be such a relation, andknowWhenthere is. we die in Christ we shall enter upon an eternity of everlasting ...
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