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To be near unto God - pagina 31
in a childlike way, and with childlike intimacy to have fellowship with him. Let it be distinctly understood that this rests on sober reality. That this is not mere semblance but actual fact, That since God created us after his image. thus, in the face of a broad difference. Divine reality is exp ...
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we feel that our prayer obtains free access to the throne of the Almighty, then we understand from our own experience what the Psalmist wrote about the blessedness of the moment in which the Lord regarded again the prayer of the soul that was destitute. Is now the solution of this apparent contra ...
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the case with our prayer-life taken as Through foolish petitions we arrive at purified prayers. Through earthly prayers we come to those holier petitions which have been watered with the dew of heaven, and which scintillate with light from higher spheres than ours. But such is the case also with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 34
"HEARKEN UNTO ME, MY PEOPLE." "GIVE HEED TO ME, O LORD." At one time it was thought that sound came from the throat, that its power was limited, and that it could only make our word intelligible at short distances. No one could hear us, nor we him, from a greater distance than our voice could car ...
To be near unto God - pagina 35
thoughts have been exchanged. In this wise things have become realities which at one time were entirely unthinkable. And he who considers how quickly these evermore wonderful inventions have succeeded one another conjectures that still more can be expected and that playing with and listening to e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 36
our God who is the creator of all these means, and has them at his disposal, can from the Throne of his glory look down upon us and can whisper to us in the soul. And how, on the other hand also, when our voice, however weak, goes out to him in supplication, it can be heard by him. As regards the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 37
sion of the heart and the sweet joy of being God's child transports us into holy ecstacy. But we can not deal with this now. We have in mind the man who believes, but who through sin and trial has lost in part the sense of being a child of God, and finds himself distant from God. Such spiritual c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 38
so that the quiet collecting of the soul before God is ever less frequent. And it is chiefly because of this that in these, our days, the secret walk with God suffers loss. But for this very reason the new Inventions of communication and interchange of thought provide a counterpoise. For they com ...
To be near unto God - pagina 39
— The heart is not carried on the sleeve as in childhood years. Some people succeed in hiding their inner life from the eyes of others. No sooner, however, is the personal life disclosed to the ear of a friend but the same result follows. A Dart of our self-knowledge we have acquired ourselves. T ...
To be near unto God - pagina 40
not see and discover in myself, teach Thou me, O my God" (Job 34:32). These two parts of human knowledge are abroad everywhere. All through life there is a part of knowledge which we acquire ourselves and a part which God brings us. To see is to observe, and ordinarily we call the first part of o ...
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