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To be near unto God - pagina 85
serve to portray what it is "to be near unto God," to make it, as it were, visible to our eyes and perceptible to our feelings, is entirely in keeping with the order of creation. It corresponds to the divinely appointed state of things. It appeals to us as altogether natural. But this symbolism m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 86
uniting of heart to fear the name of God; no experience of secret fellowship with God. If God does not exist outside of our thought, the self-sufficient soul can not come near to God, nor can it dwell in his tent. Every deeply spiritual life in Holy writ protests against this danger. Such was not ...
To be near unto God - pagina 83
that no fruit of the spirit can ripen and the very intensity of the grace of God will harden us. "Thou Lord art the sun of my soul," is the language of faith with which to enter eternity. Let us see to it that it may not some day testify against us. "The fall and rising again" has an application ...
To be near unto God - pagina 88
til at length, in despair, fellowship with Satan becomes more natural than the secret walkwith God. The Psalmist not only glories that he rests in the shadow of God, but also that he hides in the shadow of the Almighty. This must needs be added. Compared with the defenceless chicken, the m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 89
Almighty. This has been tried in the hour of calamity by those of a transient faith, but the effort has proved futile. It is here the other way. The secret walk with God is not found as a means of deliverance in the hour of need. They who had found it in times of prosperity and ease knew the wing ...
To be near unto God - pagina 91
rise of wind more noticeable, the sound of the wind has always as of itself spoken of higherthings.Natural philosophy had not yet made a study As the gale arose of atmospheric currents. with dark clouds in the sky, and by its rumblings made the forests to tremble, it was interpreted ...
To be near unto God - pagina 92
And bythe side of this is the symbol of the Softly the wind of day enters Paradise. At first it is not. It arises unobserved, but always from without. It comes to man who does not at once perceive It. At first there is separation and duality. The symbol of the wind represents man as apart ...
To be near unto God - pagina 93
Majesty of God. And only when both of these operate purely, each within its own domain, there is the most exalted worship of God's majesty, together with the most blessed enjoyment of his eternal Love. of theThus the pendulum of the inner life of the moves ever to and fro. When we have giv ...
To be near unto God - pagina 90
the luxuriant stillness of Paradise, where everything breathes calm and peace, suddenly a soft rustle is heard sounding through the foliage. Just such a sound as we hear when, as we are seated near by a woodland, some one approaches us through the thickets, pushing aside the light twigs and makin ...
To be near unto God - pagina 95
which the voice of God passes by us in the wind of the day, but leaves us unmoved and indifferent. While blessed in turn is each day in which in "the wind of the day" God comes so near to the soul that the approach turns into communion, in the intimacy and tenderness of which with fresh draughts ...
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