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To be near unto God - pagina 391
our moral existence as man is constantly under the supervision of this selfsame God, who judges us at the bar of our own conscience, as often as we go contrary to his holy will. And from these two there arises gradually the still higher sense, that "God's oversight of our spirit" bears not only a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 392
isunder his holy supervision.Herevives in uswhat is ready to languish. He bends straight in us what threatens to become crooked. And as a mother cares for her babe in outward things, so does our faithful Father provide against every difficulty and every need of our sou ...
To be near unto God - pagina 393
—72'EVERY ONE WHICH SEETH THE SON." The one believething ofon Christ.allTheothers among men is to Scripture announces inway that God has given his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting lif ...
To be near unto God - pagina 394
limited time and in a given measure. Sympathy, inclination, preference, affection, all blossom with silvery blossoms, but never dominate all of life, do not change the ground of existence, and have no all-deciding and ever-abiding results. Faith in the Son of God stands far above everything else ...
To be near unto God - pagina 395
had tried to provide it, but in vain, until at length God brought it. He imparted it, not in the form of a gift, but in a most holy person; who was not one taken from among uSj but one who came down from heaven and not as an angel, which as God's servant and our helper stands outside of both Divi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 396
the soul can ever create faith in Christ, produce imprint and implant it. The seed of faith is a Divine sowing. Faith in Jesus is as much a gift as Christ himself is. Faith is a work of Divine compassion, wrought by the Holy Ghost. But all faith in Christ has this peculiarity and necessity, that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 397
soul, itwhich maintains the glow of faith and makesto burn brightly. The entire contentreduced from theofthememorymemory must beto the unityof theimage of the Son of God. It must all be united and brought together, in order to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 398
spiritually seeing the son with the eyes soul, the child of God knows himself toofthebe onewith the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Hear the petition in the high priestly prayer: ''Holy Father, I pray thee, that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 399
a mountainous country. The Psalmists have dwelt and wandered in the mountains. Of itself, theretheir fertile minds would borrow images in the mountains by which to express the antitheses of life. And so the easj^ walk, with a light step, on a smooth, straight and even road suggested of itself to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 400
whenbecomes the expression of that assurwhich with spiritual elasticity, knows how to overcome every difficulty of life on earth, and now proclaims with Habakkuk (3:17): "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; and there shall be no itance of ...
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