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To be near unto God - pagina 181
struggle against it. In this is gained of the child-likeWhen Godisspokenofway only the victory Abba Father. in a way which showsthat there has been no fear of God, nor love to cast it out; that there has been no struggle and consequently no triumph, there ...
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moments in his life when he had to confess: "What I would, that do I not; but what I hate, do" (Rom. 7:15). This is an honest conwhich age upon age has been shamefullyabused, that under the cloak of piety one might continue in sin and keep the conscience quiet. An abuse which shall be judged of G ...
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of intentions and cherish holiest purposes, at the time of trial we are bound to fail? And this mood must be resisted. This is debasement of self. It not only unfits one for the battle of life, but severs the vital nerve which Better faint ten binds one ro his Divine ideal. times and suffer the p ...
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34"NOT ASIWILL."In the "Our Father," and in Gethsemane, it "Thy will be each time the same prayer: done." But though the emphasis and the words are alike both times, the meaning is different. In the "Our Father" "Thy will be done" means: "Thy will, O God, be done by me ...
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angelsfulfil it inheaven,"itstimulates our energy,rnJ when we overcome sin the heart overflows with the feeling of supreme joy. But when "Thy will be done" means: ''Let things ^'rsup thew.Ii.occur not as I desire, but in keeping with ...
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could a loving God cruelly cast her down from the heights of her great happiness into the depths In perplexity of grief of bereavement and woe? her language becomes that of despair and of"Speak no more of God to me. There is no God." Cruelty can not be love. And so the break of happiness i ...
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heart?Not only has he not saved me my dyinghusband and child, and left me praying without coming to my aid, but he has brought these sorrows upon me. He sent illness into my home, and 0, it is almost too cruel for words, he has torn my husband from my heart and has killed my darling ...
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does not concern himself with us; that he does not apportion or regulate the course of things according to our desire; that there are different motives in his plan, which have nothing to do with our wishes; that if necessary his Might crushes us on the spot; and that in the working of the plan an ...
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andlike Job out of the whirlwind receives the answer from God himself, and now learns to understand that the government of God covers ail suns and stars, all hours and centuries, and causes every creature to revolve itself about him, the Eternal, as the one and only center, for the sake of ...
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maidenfor the elect of her heart, thatwefeela mysterious, inexplicable power at play. This is not always so with those who are Eccentric tension of the mystery of betrothed. love is rather the exception. Neither should this doting, intoxicating love be associated with ...
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