Filteren
van 65
To be near unto God - pagina 46
And this veryinsignificance of our appearance there fit to meet our Lord. reahze And then God becomes great to us. his saying that he is Our Maker. His faithfulnesses present themselves to us. The arms of everlastmg compassion support and encircle us. Anxious Sadness of heart gives place t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 48
—one deaf to me lest if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit." And what is stronger still, call to mind the Lama Sabachtani of Golgotha, echo of the prophetic complaint of Psalm 22: ''0 my God, I cry in'the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 49
Along the pathwaj' of life, which is sometimes rough and thorny, he knows what it is to "Walk with God." Blessed experience has taught liim thatinthissecretfellowshipcommunionismutual, so that he seeks his Father, but also that the Father gives him ...
To be near unto God - pagina 51
communion. A headache may depress us and prevent the mind from free utterance, or lessen our sensitiveness. This also may act as a spur to give the body rest and calm in behalf of fellowship with God. At times, hovv'ever, the failure of obtaining a Divine hearing can not be explained from one cau ...
To be near unto God - pagina 50
man can understand our telegraphic communication, so little can the man of the world imderstand the mystical fellowship of the earnest believer on God with the Heavenly Father, who is both far off and close by. And the believer on God understands how this fellowship can be interrupted, and even e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 53
God includes a spiritual reality which far exceeds mere intellectual acumen, and which merely employs the abstractions of dogma and doctrine as means by which to clarify impressions that are received and to explain sensations of soul and inner experiences. And this has gradually been forgotten. K ...
To be near unto God - pagina 54
Thereis language in nature and in the animal But human language is altogether different and far richer, even though no word is spoken.world.The countenance facial expression,speaks; it speaks through the but particularly through and byThrough the eye, as a windo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 52
cametoknowand there;"nwself,"or, ''Iwas converted then"Then andthere I gave myself to Christ;" "In this wa}' or in that I found my Savior." And in whatever way it was expressed, it always meant the narrative of personal religious experience. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 55
This can not be taken in a material sense. Temptation leads to this and the Divine Father has been pictured in the form of an old man. Even Moses went astray in this direction when he prayed for a sight of God's face. It was a bold prayer. It brought this answer: "Thou canst not see my face, for ...
To be near unto God - pagina 56
;established between the Living God and our soul. Scripture expresses this mystical knowledge of God in various ways. It speaks of the ''secret walk with God," of ''dwelling in the House of the Lord," of "walking with God." And the Gospel develops this into the rich and glorious thought th ...
van 65
