Filteren
van 112
To be near unto God - pagina 27
Before the days of the Bethlehem birth God spoke to us in the human word, but in Christ God He reveals himself is manifest in human nature. to us as the son of Man. A human heart speaks here in human language and in human ways. As the Apostle John asserts: In Jesus they have not only seen and hea ...
To be near unto God - pagina 28
abstract ideas about the immensities of God in the place of this heart-to-heart intimacy which can not be cultivated with God except in a human ^way? Let us leave this to philosophers who do not pray, and to theologians dry-as-dust who are not children of their Father in heaven. But as for us, le ...
To be near unto God - pagina 18
will-power can be of use to us only when we can apply them to good and noble ends. Satan is the 'most strongly developed personality conceivable. Any one can train himself in sin. Hence the question remains: Have we developed the traits ofand powersof personality, which are in of et ...
To be near unto God - pagina 3
Into ($ahth'L.Eerdmans-SeyensmaCo. PUBLISHERS GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN 1918 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 29
from God, and we imagine that God's part in our prayer only begins when he hears and answers it, then indeed we face an insoluble riddle. But if we take it in the other, truer way, and make it clear to our mind that God has quickened our prayer-life and that he directs and carries it, the matter ...
To be near unto God - pagina 21
with greatest reverence, it is equally sure that God has pointed them out to us for this end. To picture this Divine fellowship the Scripture even borrows figures from animal life. Jesus illustrated his tender love for Jerusalem by the figure of the hen that gathers her chickens under her wings. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 5
TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD 1"IT ISWhenGOOD FOR ME TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD."in holy ecstacy the Psalmist sings:'*!love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplication," he pours out his whole soul in his song, but the love can not be analyzed. To have lo ...
van 112
