To be near unto God - pagina 560
The conflict was in the open. Altogether different from now. Even in those days, however, Satan tried to hide himself. We refer to this for our instruction. Peter, with his sensitive nature and excitable mind, was used as instrument. "His 5esus to die on the Cross! Never!" Love for Jesus was the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 563
and wooed him. yet he tarried.The crown awaited him.HestillButremained in the sphereof this world. Not because it attracted him. On the contrary, between the risen Savior and the world, which was still submerged in misery, every tie of connection was seve ...
To be near unto God - pagina 562
Be, therefore, on your guard.become awareAs soonof spiritual coolness, asasyousoon as youperceive that this, that or the other thing renders difficult or prevents you from being, and continuing, near unto God, then consider what influences you are ...
To be near unto God - pagina 565
of our soul to look for God's throne not in our proximity, nor yet underneath, but above us. The heavens are God's throne and the earth is his footstool. We look up to the heavens, from whence light comes to us, where God's stars twinkle in the firmament, from whence rain descends to us and water ...
To be near unto God - pagina 564
and that for those many days he forewent the glory which awaited him on God's throne. But this could not last. The end must follow. It was an holy pause in his glorification, entered upon from love, but which of necessity had to be It could not, and was not, as short as possible. permitted to be ...
To be near unto God - pagina 567
sacred mystery, a restless ascent of our faith, our love and our hope up to the throne of glory. By his ascent up to heaven Jesus has not become farther removed from us, but he has come What now vibrates and lives and nearer by. operates is fellowship between the King of glory and his saints on e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 214
whoin his science does not feel himself drawn to God, and with his scientific knowledge, does not before all else seek God and his glory, breaks the great commandment. And this is the curse that rests so heavily on the science of our times that it does not feel in its veins the pulse-beat ...
To be near unto God - pagina 215
as the rank and file of the people take the confessional standards of the Church as the starting point of their views and convictions of life. Hence it is ruinous to love for God with "all the mind," when Christian confessions are left out from a man's convictions of life, and when it is falsely ...
To be near unto God - pagina 218
thatyou love him withall3-our heart, withallyour soul and with all your strength. And as though this does not state the case sufficiently sharply and definitely, and as though to make the last misunderstanding and misconception impossible, Jesus adds a fourth cl ...
To be near unto God - pagina 217
believing circles, especially by entire and partly emancipated women, the high ideal of love is used as a weapon with which to oppose the faithful confession of the Gospel. Love is then said to be "the whole of religion." There is no need of anything more. The Old Testament is by far too unmercif ...