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To be near unto God - pagina 381
way of him who runs amuck, because it is known that no one can face him. He is thrown by a shot from a gun. Three officers of police of theare unable sometimes to overpower a subject of delirium tremens. It takes the straight-jacket at times to render insane people powerless, which shows w ...
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through this highest inspiration, which the inworking of the Holy Ghost alone can bring about in my soul, I know that it is God's will, and that it must be done And then it is, if you like, a miracle, for then you do and suffer that which far supersedes your own strength. But the wall yields, it ...
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ness of the blessedness which is eternal, and therefore the word "continually" in the Te Deum expresses admirably the characteristic of the super-earthly, of what is devoted to God, even the kingdom of heaven. It sounds paradoxical to us, when the apostle exhorts us to: "Pray without ceasing," or ...
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the Lord, to set him always before you, and to fix your eyes ever upon him, is simply impossible, because from the nature of the case, human life, surroundings, business cares and daily duties forbid it. For in this sense both David and Paul knew well that life is not ceaseless devotion and But i ...
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again to the world, in the life of which the rest of the day is spent. Such is the existence of him who out of every twenty-four hours of the day spends eight in bed, more than fifteen in the world, and altogether scarcely half an hour with God. He has often tried to retire half an hour for praye ...
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But gradually there comes a disclosing. We begin to live a little more with and in our own heart. And when we enter our heart suflSciently deeply, we find there God, the Holy Ghost, who has compassion on us. This of itself brings us to a life of two phases; one outward and the other inward. But t ...
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than when again and againitthrows distractivediscord into the harmony of the Psalm of life. And to break with sin, and to lose self again in worship and blessed fellowship becomes of itself the rising impulse of the heart. 71"THY OVERSIGHT HATH PRESERVEDMY ...
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Mymysoul after thee, God. soul for the living God" (Psalm 42). "I remember these things and pour out my soul in me." Again: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me." The Scripture makes no distinctionso panteththirsteth for In verse 4: ...
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ously wrought, and in addition to this the ego And in Job 10:9-12: that was made in secret. 'Thou hast made me as the clay; Thou hast poured me out as milk, and curdled me like Thou hast clothed me with skin and cheese. flesh, and hast fenced (crocheted) me with bones and sinews," and over and ab ...
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the calm and blessed feeling of assurance takes hold of us, that by day and by night, in ordinary and in extraordinary circumstances we are watched over, cared for and looked after by God.Wecometo discover that the inner life of in God's hand. That he has charge of That his c ...
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