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To be near unto God - pagina 421
hand was stretched out in the night to my Grod in prayer. Thou, Lord, held mine eyes watching. In the night I communed with mine own heart; and my spirit made diligent search." When we close our eyes for sleep, or for prayer, we go out from light, by excluding the same, into desired darkness. We ...
To be near unto God - pagina 422
of old age. The same happens night. Sleep is the passing of the light of our consciousness into the twilight of slumber, and finally into deep, sound sleep. At night the light of day without, and the light of self-consciousness within, set in darkness and unconsciousness. It may even be said that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 423
holds back the passionately longed-for sleep from our eyes. Sleeplessness is a part of human misery, which is foreign to younger years, but which in later years few escape. As in good prayer the mind excludes itself from the world, but is the more clearly awake to the higher world of thought, so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 424
ferent from what it is, but purifying our imagination and cleansing our thoughts will in time transport our dreams into sinless domains. Our responsibility for what our mind does in sleepless hours of night is of necessity far greater. For in the darkness of night our spirit can invite the world, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 425
and wilderness on earth, but also in sun, stars. Wherever there is a creature, the Spirit operates in it. Without the operation of the Spirit no force of nature is even thinkable. And this spirit, which thus operates in every creature, is none other than the Holy Spirit, who is to be adored in th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 426
not know this grace and does not see it. It has not even the faintest idea of what this grace might be. For this very reason it should be strongly guarded against, that on the ground of this privilege, the church should imagine that the Spirit does not operate in this as yet unregenerated world, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 427
;Christ, the mystical body of which he is the Head in this mystical body the Holy Spirit dwells, first in the Head, and from this Head, along all articulations, tissues and veins inspires every one who as a living member has been incorporated in this Body, and lives in connection with this ...
To be near unto God - pagina 428
that wonderfully assimilating power again which shows itself so gloriously in every reveille. Of course, this Body is not identical with the visible church. But the visible church also is not alive save by the Holy Ghost, who, flowing out from the Head of the invisible Body of the Lord, keeps the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 429
of the immediate meeting of the Ego of God and the ego of the heart in the mysticism of grace. We have heard of the holy Apostle, and in reading his Epistles we have a certain fellowship with the Man of Tarsus. But it would be something entirely different if we lived with St. Paul for a whole yea ...
To be near unto God - pagina 430
Of two things one:either the child ofGodhasthis fellowship, or he longs for it, he prays for it, he waits for it all the day long (Ps. 25:5 Dutch version). In conversion it is a seeking for whatwas not as yet ing back what applies: ''He knocks, it shallAf ...
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