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To be near unto God - pagina 21
what have I; what is there of me? Does my money impart to me my worth as a man, or am I something myself? Are there treasures stored up in my heart? Apart from all material interests has my personal self any significance worthy of mark in God's sight, or am actually nothing? Let us not deceive ou ...
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of fine sharp tools by themselves, they are utterly useless. Thus the heart can only speak of possessions, when such powers and capacities have been so trained that they will permit admittance into heaven, will make us feel at home there, and will enable us to exert heavenly influences there. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 23
In addition to all this, according to the Scripture, there is the inheritance of the saints in light.Thedifferencebetween these twoisde-termined by the difference between the innerand the outward life. The riches in God have already to do with the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 24
these are not fellowship with the Eternal. He fears the Lord does not rest until he has entered into such conscious fellowship with Him that there is mutual knowledge between the two. Even the clear sense that God knows him and that he knows God. What we call friendly intercourse among men, intim ...
To be near unto God - pagina 25
ly given help to make clear to us the things which we observe and feel or only dimly sense in the mystic depths of our heart? But even the broad creation fell short of material along this line. Wherefore the Lord has put still another figure before us by which to Ulustrate this intimate fellowshi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 26
Temple were a pattern of what actually in the heavens. And in connectionexistswith this, the deep longing constantly expressed to be privileged to dwell in the Tabernacle of the Lord. Rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than dwell in the palaces of the ungodly. "One thing hav ...
To be near unto God - pagina 27
the house of the Lord all the days to be so vividly conscious of our fellowship with the living God that every morning, noon and night our thoughts go out to Him, that we hear his voice in the soul, that we are aware of his holy Presence within, experience his workings in our heart and in our con ...
To be near unto God - pagina 28
ence that nothing separates us any more from the Lord; that his arms are around us, and that as it were we cleave unto God. This is holy ground. It is not free from dangers. Misapprehension can interpret this figurative language literally, and in an unholy sense materialize our Spiritual God. Fal ...
To be near unto God - pagina 29
prophetic insight he anticipates the day when the Lord will hear the prayer of his people, and inspired by this thought he exclaims: "When the Lord will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer, then shall all the kings of the earth fear him." Thus the Psalmist was still i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 30
And that there are moments disregards our prayers, but which, praise his name, are succeeded by other moments in which He does regard them ? You believe in Christ, i^ou believe that his saying is true: *'He that hath seen Me, has seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?" On ...
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