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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 3
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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 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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 6
But when the heart can say: I love the Lord, the idea of the Eternal becomes personified. Then God becomes the Shepherd who leads us, the Father who spiritually begat us, the covenant-God to whom we sustain the covenant relation, the Friend who offers us friendship, the Lord whom we serve, the Go ...
To be near unto God - pagina 7
never be told in words. We then come near unto God, and this comprises all the blessedness of believing.He whohas not learned this secret may say It is good for me to hold me fast by God (Ps. 73:27 Prayer-Book version), but he can not grasp it. So he passes it by as though it meant ...
To be near unto God - pagina 8
this line. Though be, we understandwas not right, and never can what went on in the heart of those who sought escape from the world, in cell or hermitage, for the sake of unbroken fellowship with God. It might have been efficacious, if in withdrawing from the world they had been able to le ...
To be near unto God - pagina 9
wound, when thefig tree does not blossom, and the vine will yield no fruit, then with Habakkuk to rejoice in the Lord, because His blessed presence is more enjoyed in adversity than in seasons of material prosperity, this is the lesson of history in all ages. But the ways of the world are ...
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