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To be near unto God - pagina 551
Psalms is Job with his wondrous descriptions of the Behemoth, the horse and the pleiades. It is all one mighty call in the greatness and beauty of nature to behold the glory of God.And when in Scripture we come to the preaching of the Son of Man, it is again the self-same call: "Consider t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 552
voices of nature. "In his temple," says the Psalmist, after having described the power of God in nature, "in his temple doth ever3^one speak of his glory" (Psalm 29:9). And in the Hallelujah song of Psalm 147 it is said that Israel is highly exalted above primitive peoples, because the Lord hath ...
To be near unto God - pagina 553
Godwe created after the you will not get from books, and not from travel, and not from acquaintance with men. For all this only confines you to the limit and to the measure of our small proportions, and is altogether different from a rising or a setting of God's sun; altogether different f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 554
100"THOU TRIEST MINE HEART, THAT ISITWITH THEE."Manycauses can interrupt the secret walk with to the pious mind is, that God withdraws his face, in order, by the want of it, to make you thirst more strongly after The most common is, that earthly interests it. so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 555
and the inclination tofleefrom God was strongerthan to be near unto God. We perceive this change in our spiritual attitude f' early, at once and in the most painful way,whenit was a sin that tempted us; a sin which, once committed, startled us, and for which we ...
To be near unto God - pagina 556
God, when you know him in ail your ways, and have been initiated into the secret of salvation, and then commit a sin which startles and frightens you, and brings a dark cloud to your sky, and you are thrown back upon yourself, and you feel that you have no more part in the lovely walk with God. I ...
To be near unto God - pagina 557
Not from lack of will, but from shame. We knew that we must get back to God, but we postponed it. We wanted to pray, but we allowedfear.welltime to intervene.Wekeptsilent.Andin thisoppressive silence, which so sorely weighed upon the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 558
andit is good for you, unspeakably good, to be near again unto God.And what the soul?isthe secret of this healing work of not stated in Jeremiah's words:Is it"Lord, thou knowest me, thou seest me, thou triest mine heart that it is with thee" (Jer. 12:3 Du ...
To be near unto God - pagina 559
God, and that in co-operation with Satan we oppose God. And if this be the case what is it to make confession of sin, save that so soon as you realize this, you at once step out from among the ranks of Satan and return to the battle lines of God, imploring mercy, that you may be counted worthy ag ...
To be near unto God - pagina 560
of Satan by dragging him, as it were, rightly or wrongly, into everything. But does it not seem that now we rather incline to the other extreme, and forget, if not deny, the very existence of the Evil One? With this denial, self-conceited freedom in matters of belief makes singular shifts with th ...
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