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To be near unto God - pagina 101
ground or in hiding behind breastworks. But even when David wrote the Psalms archers were few and fighting was done by man against man at the close range of eye to eye, of foot touching foot, and clashing of swords. And such combats could not end until one of the two assailants was bathed in his ...
To be near unto God - pagina 102
stroke of the sword. But always in such a way that the soldier carried the shield himself that he moved it now this way, then that, and held it out against the attack. "The Lord is my shield" does not say therefore that God protects us from a distance and that he covers us without effort on our p ...
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,IGod IS our shield against contagious disease, against the forces of nature, and against death by accident. But this does not mean that we are to sit down passively that God may cover us The imagery of the shield allows no such int^rpretation. On the contrary, that God is a shield ...
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We speak of an escutcheon, by which we mean a shield on which the man who owns it has graved his blazon. This is a sign of personal recognition for those who know him, and it announces who hides behind it. Thus the shield expresses the person and becomes something by Great or It becomes a personi ...
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19"IMMANUEL." is quite so much of an obstacle in the communion with God as the saying of Jesus to the Samaritan woman at Sychar: "God IS a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). Our representations and thoughts begin with what we see and hea ...
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Along the way of ordinary knowledge and discovery we can not find God. Contact of soul with God takes place in a spiritual manner. It takes place of itself in Immanuel. When in foreign parts we unexpectedly hear our own language spoken we feel at home at once. This is because we feel that this la ...
To be near unto God - pagina 107
ance with the perceptions of which it is capable. He draws near to us in our nature, so that in order to find God we do not need to go out from our nature and enter upon a purely spiritual existence. Desirous to bless us, God from his side makes the transition which he spares us. We do not go to ...
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ruined estate nothing short of holy grace could fill the gap. This was done in Immanuel, in the coming of God to us in the garb of human nature. Idolatry proclaimed the need of this when it imaged the Lord of heaven and earth after the likeness of a man. Hence Christianity alone can undo idolatry ...
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world of thoughts and representations, the blessed results of his work that are showered down upon us, and the supply of powers of the Kingdom which inwardly renew us. But underneath it all, personal contact, real fellowship with God, is always a hidden, spiritual motion, so that inwardly we hear ...
To be near unto God - pagina 110
worship by application to God's majesty. God is In Him is no darkness at all. He dwells in light unapproachable, and Father of lights islight.his name. After the creation, therefore, when "darkness was upon the face of the deep," God could not appear in the created world without fir ...
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