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To be near unto God - pagina 575
youwill feel yourself in the presence ofhath included you "with same bundle of life.allGod, whosaints" in the self-104"THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY GHOST BE WITH YOU ALL." The apostle from ...
To be near unto God - pagina 578
and calmly,i. e. without any perceptible death In most cases nothing more is heard. In the face of all this the church usage has stood firm, and the congregation of God gathers in the sanctuary with the holy salutation and returns homeward with the address of blessing from the Lord. For th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 579
But the real Christian ordinances and usages. meeting of these two spheres takes place only in believers, who still live in this visible world, and yet carry the higher world in their heart; the latter expressing itself in theircommunion withas often as this preponderance of the hol ...
To be near unto God - pagina 580
fully aware of the antithesis between the world and the higher order of things, and always tofoster fellowship with that higher order of things,to strengthen it, to feed it, and to remove everything that might hinder or weaken it out of the way. This power and ability does not come ...
To be near unto God - pagina 581
105 I,THE LORD THY GOD, AM A JEALOUS GOD."mypeople," said the Lord to Ezekiel: I know the things that come into your mind, pvcry one of them" (Ezekiel 11:5). Hence also he knows what should, but does not, come into it. \- itiier the all-seeing eye nor the all-hearing ear he H ...
To be near unto God - pagina 582
ences no impression, no influence, no governing power of that all-knowing and all-hearing character of the perceptions of God. He acts, speaks, thinks and allows his inner life to operate as though there were no God who watches him, who overhears him, and whose eye inwardly searches him. He who b ...
To be near unto God - pagina 583
seeks his holy thinks of him, goes out to him, and On the other hand Gods love is fellowship.not his child can forget him, and with in think of him, and be engaged it depends everything save him; when, as far as order on us, he is the forsaken one. For, the heart deeply and strongly to imp ...
To be near unto God - pagina 584
you pawn away your loveto your own self, or to as your idol, to the world, or to demoniac spirits, the Scripture always and unconditionally condemns this as a drawing away of self from God, as a violation of faithfulness to God, as a wandering away from the Holy One, and as a desertion fro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 585
and no hypocrisy. His all-penetrating glance puts every cover aside. And these two taken together account for the fact, that sensitiveness in Divine love is far more strongly moved to jealousy, than strongest human passion can ever arouse brooding envy. When we are not remembered by our friends i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 587
enjoyment. But when you consider nearness unto God, thinking of God, being engaged with God, from the side of God who loves you, an entirely different note mingles itself in this love-song. Then you can not and will not grieve the Holy spirit. Then it is not your soul alone which seeks God, but f ...
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