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To be near unto God - pagina 378
through this highest inspiration, which the inworking of the Holy Ghost alone can bring about in mj^ soul, I know that it is God's will, and that it must be done And then it is, if you like, a miracle, for then you do and suffer that which far supersedes your own strength. But the wall yields, it ...
To be near unto God - pagina 381
again to the world, in the life of which the rest Such is the existence of of the day is spent. him who out of every twenty-four hours of the day spends eight in bed, more than fifteen in the world, and altogether scarcely half an hour with God. He has often tried to retire half an hour for praye ...
To be near unto God - pagina 380
the Lord, to set him always before you, and to your eyes ever upon him, is simply impossible, because from the nature of the case, human life, surroundings, business cares and daily duties forbid it. For in this sense both David and Paul knew well that life is not ceaseless devotion and the world ...
To be near unto God - pagina 382
But gradually there comes a disclosing- We begin to live a little more with and in our own heart. And when we enter our heart sufficiently deeply, we find there God, the Holy Ghost, who has compassion on us. This of itself brings us to a life of two phases; one outward and the other inward. But t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 383
than when again and again it throws distractive discord into the harmonj' of the Psalm of hfe. And to break with sin, and to lose self again in worship and blessed fellowship becomes of itself the rising impulse of the heart. 71"THY OVERSIGHT HATH PRESERVEDMYSPIRIT." is that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 385
ously wrought, and in addition to this the ego And in Job 10:9-12: that was made in secret. ''Thou hast made me as the clay; Thou hast poured me out as milk, and curdled me Uke Thou hast clothed me with skin and cheese. flesh, and hast fenced (crocheted) me with bones and sinews," and over and ab ...
To be near unto God - pagina 384
Mymysoul after thee, God. soul thirsteth for God, for the living God" (Psalm 42). In verse 4: "I remember these things and pour out soul in me." Again: "Why art thou cast soul, and why art thou disquieted down, O within me." The Scripture makes no distinctionso panteth ...
To be near unto God - pagina 387
our moral existence as man is constantly under the supervision of this selfsame God, who judges us at the bar of our own conscience, as often as we go contrary to his holy will. And from these two there arises graduallj^ the still higher sense, that "God's oversight of our spirit" bears not only ...
To be near unto God - pagina 386
the calm and blessed feeling of assurance takes hold of us, that bj^ day and by night, in ordinary and in extraordinary circumstances we are watched over, cared for and looked after by God. We also come to discover that the inner life of our soul is in God's hand. That he has charge of it That hi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 388
isunder his holy supervision.Herevives in uswhat is ready to languish. He bends straight in us what threatens to become crooked. And as a mother cares for her babe in outward things, so does our faithful Father provide against every difficulty and every need of our sou ...
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