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To be near unto God - pagina 459
God who allows it; but we can submit to this. But that God himself inflicts this in sickness, and by means of cruel death, is and remains at this viewpoint a stumbling block which one can not get over, and which has killed much rootless faith. What accounts for this, save that God's thoughts are ...
To be near unto God - pagina 460
If he elected godless peoonly for this purpose, they would harden themselves against suffering, and the godly would pride themselves on being spared. The medicine would do no good. It would bring spiritual petrifaction. It would bring loss for gain.suffering to the world.pleN ...
To be near unto God - pagina 461
86"THE SPIRIT OFMANISA CANDLE OFTHE LORD." To benear untoGoda luxury of soul which also in unconsciousness. When a child of God that enjoyed the secret walk is put under an anesthetic for the sake of an operation, it does not break fellowshi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 464
by contrasting the heart and the reins, and also by speaking of the bowels, or as in Proverbs 20:27, by contrasting the soul with "the innermost chambers of the belly." Translating this into our language, "the soul of man" here means our consciousness, and the latter clause what we call: Our hidd ...
To be near unto God - pagina 462
and during sleep it maintains itself and acts. The knowledge of this imparls rest, as one undergoes an anaesthetic, and no less that peaceful feeling with which at night we lose ourselves in sleep. "Letmesleeping wait for thee; Lord, then sleepI peacefully," as itwas s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 463
the thrilling of the feeling. And though, when the child shall have become a youth and a young man, this fellowship will express itself in words and in ideas, the root of this communion, even in later years, will reach deeper than the lips that speak the word. What does not the look of the eye co ...
To be near unto God - pagina 465
into pitch darkness,andof our innermost being,inthisblack darkness us with theGod meetscandle of our consciousness.Of course, our consciousness is no candle, which the Lord uses to search us. God has no need of the hght of the sun by which t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 466
izedworld" for the most part God's candle in us.isblindtothelight ofThe light of this candle of the Lord in us does not argue, and does not analyze, but shows what there is in us, lays bare our own being before the eye of the soul, gives us self-kn ...
To be near unto God - pagina 468
there is nothing indicative in this of thirst after the living God; nothing of the child's longing for his Father's house; nothing of sacred jealousy for the honor of God's name. And from this, no spiritual power can proceed. No religion can operate in, nor go forth from, this. And what is more, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 467
86"1TheINTHEM AND THOUIN ME."God andour "mystical with Christ" belong together. All the apostles placed the emphasis on this; and in their writings the fathers of the Reformation, with Calvin in the lead, always referred to the mystical union with ...
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