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To be near unto God - pagina 37
sion of the heart and the sweet joy of being God's child transports us into holy ecstacy. But we can not deal with this now. We have in mind the man who believes, but who through sin and trial has lost in part the sense of being a child of God, and finds himself distant from God. Such spiritual c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 40
not see and discover in myself, teach Thou me, O my God" (Job 34:32). These two parts of human knowledge are abroad everywhere. All through life there is a part of knowledge which we acquire ourselves and a part which God brings us. To see is to observe, and ordinarily we call the first part of o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 39
— The heart is not carried on the sleeve as in childhood years. Some people succeed in hiding their inner life from the eyes of others. No sooner, however, is the personal life disclosed to the ear of a friend but the same result follows. A Dart of our self-knowledge we have acquired ourselves. T ...
To be near unto God - pagina 38
so that the quiet collecting of the soul before God is ever less frequent. And it is chiefly because of this that in these, our days, the secret walk with God suffers loss. But for this very reason the new Inventions of communication and interchange of thought provide a counterpoise. For they com ...
To be near unto God - pagina 41
truth. He who has no sense of ideals may seek material knowledge, but the knowledge of higher things in human life leaves him cold and inA money-wolf is an adept in the different. knowledge that promises gain, but what does he care for the higher knowledge of the nobler elements of human life? Ju ...
To be near unto God - pagina 42
Byseeing and observing, a part of our knowledge is in our own power. But the part of higher and nobler knowledge God alone canimpart.As we apply this to ourselves we see at once that this Divinely-imparted knowledge comes by no means exclusively through the conscience. Upon a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 43
deeper interests in the higher things of life and makes us grow and expand in them with continual refreshings. And if this is so, it is who have raised ourselves up to God, but it is God who has raised us up to heavenly This mercy may have places with himself. been shown to us and not to some oth ...
To be near unto God - pagina 44
ever larger knowledge of selves.Andhim andthis, their thirst,ofthem-can only expressmyGod, aside from what the prayer: O see and discover myself, teach Thou me. Instruct me ever more in holy fellowship withitself in IThee. 8 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 45
exhaustion of strength? He, after whose Image we are created, never wearies. The heavenly hosts of angels do not sleep. Of the new Jerusalem we read: "There shall be no more night." We can imagine a being, who does not exhaust his strength and therefore needs no sleep. Why God appointed life for ...
To be near unto God - pagina 46
most dreams are forgotten on waking. And at rare times they leave a memory, nothing but vague, vanishing and mixed images float before the mind. Even the petition from thewhenold evening song, "In sleeping let me wait on Thee; in dreams be Thou my joy," does not de-termine, s ...
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