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To be near unto God - pagina 94
world, and loses even the exhilarating freshness of this piety. With a healthful state of heart this change is steady and regular. There is the constant and earnest application to our work,with God above us, fromwhom comesourstrength, and in whom stands our help. And t ...
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refresh itself." On the one hand intense longing for the joy of the presence of God, and on the other hand the cry of agony for deliverance from God's presence. Does it not seem, at first, that the one is a malediction against the other ? This bitter wail of David does not stand alone. In the boo ...
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In ordinary life we are sufficient unto ourWe extricate ourselves from our little difficulties. We have the means at command to provide against special needs. We know how to rise above simple adversities. And when they are overcome, the triumph deepens the sense of our self-sufficiency. selves. ...
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proach, that they have so long ignored him, adds to the terror of their fears.But this apprehension of dread affects the godly man most strongly when faith fails him, and God momentarily lets him go. Then it seems that God loosens his hold on the soul and at the same time tightens his hold ...
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munion with God in Christ can be enjoyed. But if momentarily faith fails us, and the shield of Christ is taken away from before us, and in the midst of afflictions we feel ourselves suddenly face to face again with the naked majesty of God in his anger, the agony of soul in God's otherwise devote ...
To be near unto God - pagina 101
ground or in hiding behind breastworks. But even when David wrote the Psalms archers were few and fighting was done by man against man at the close range of eye to eye, of foot touching foot, and clashing of swords. And such combats could not end until one of the two assailants was bathed in his ...
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stroke of the sword. But always in such a way that the soldier carried the shield himself that he moved it now this way, then that, and held it out against the attack. "The Lord is my shield" does not say therefore that God protects us from a distance and that he covers us without effort on our p ...
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way by those who all their life have been deeply impressed by God's power. For there is a two-fold sense of God's presence. Now in blessed fellowship with God. And again in the awful consciousness of God's terrible presence in the fears that assail us. And if we were dealt with after our sins and ...
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,IGod IS our shield against contagious disease, against the forces of nature, and against death by accident. But this does not mean that we are to sit down passively that God may cover us The imagery of the shield allows no such int^rpretation. On the contrary, that God is a shield ...
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We speak of an escutcheon, by which we mean a shield on which the man who owns it has graved his blazon. This is a sign of personal recognition for those who know him, and it announces who hides behind it. Thus the shield expresses the person and becomes something by Great or It becomes a personi ...
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