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To be near unto God - pagina 401
ority and of being a privileged character, until there comes a turn in life, and the sun goes hiding behind the clouds. Then everything collapses at once. Then there is no power of resistance. Then there is no disciplined strength. Then there is nothing to hold him up and to enable him to cope wi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 402
But there have always been others who have persevered, who would not give up, who did not abandon hope, and who by great pov/er of will reached the point, where they could breathe again, and opposition seemed broken. And thanks to the practice acquired in the struggle, they put forth a. final, gi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 403
panies us to the grave, and the cross casts its shadow across our path to the end. For this is the glory of faith, that it discloses another, a better way to us, a way on the heights of the mountain of God's holiness, which excels the ways of our earthly life, and dissolves all our sorrow, misery ...
To be near unto God - pagina 404
to life in Paradise, and when sin came in, Paradise was gone, and the curse overtook our earthly existence. Not as though deadly monotony prevailed in Paradise, or that in heaven the absence of all change about God's throne would occasion a somber pall to darken the life of the blessed. Without e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 405
Here on earthsin characterizes alloflife.Itdoes this by no means merely in the sense, that sin is continuously committed night and day, and that sin occasions ruin, but rather in this sense that sin breaks human life, constantly removes its supports and makes th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 406
and shall one day show itself to be our real human existence, even as it is this already for God's angels. But it does follow from this that our earthly life must be continuouslyhigher, true,tossed and shaken and move ever up and down; and that it becomes richer, more interesting an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 407
mining, so that rejuvenated and renewed in strength of life you feel by the grace of God that you have been, as it were, given back to yourself, in order, as though nothing had ever been the matter with you, in full realization of Divine grace, with renewed courage to take up the battle This refr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 408
thisabundant refreshing overtakes usspiritually.only overtakes him who exists spiritually, who inwardly leads a spiritual life and who can thirst after God as the hart thirsts after the water brooks. The many thousands who live in unconcern, without ever missing fellowship Bu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 409
ness are ended, and light shines forth again, and God returns to reveal himself to you in the fullness of his grace, then for you also there is abundant refreshing. And then you perceive and confess that had not God led you through this depth of forsakenness, you would never have experienced such ...
To be near unto God - pagina 410
learning to walk, until at last it succeeds when And so the the ankles have become stronger. growth goes on until full maturity is reached; and then there is strength for a hard run, the bold jump, the climb of a steep rock, the defiance of weariness and fatigue. All this is material. The growth ...
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