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To be near unto God - pagina 591
enjoyment. But when you consider nearness unto God, thinking of God, being engaged with God, from the side of God who loves you, an entirely different note mingles itself in this love-song. Then you can not and will not grieve the Holy spirit. Then it is not your soul alone which seeks God, but f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 592
phenomena appear, and consequently in mutual relation. Whether in the evening the sky shows itself bright or dull red, depends upon the greater or lesser density with which mists or vapours place themselves between our eye and the red glow of the setting sun. And so in the world of spirits, an en ...
To be near unto God - pagina 593
In our twentieth century, however, the table turns again. There is once more a reveille, but It is far more a not in the Christian domain. reveille of mystic, religious feeling, entirely independent of Christianity, for the most part rejecting the way of truth and seeking ways of its own, and thu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 594
what criticism this demands at and what duty this lays upon them. selvesThey maintaintheir stand.their hands,They dothisbythe grace that is within, and by the spiritual impulse that operates in them. Though they should have to die for Jesus, they c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 595
behalf of these wanderers, involuntarily, ascends their troubled hearts. Even in the deepest parts of their inward life they undergo the noticeable influence of this change in the signs of the times. To be near unto God and to continue there is far easier when everything around you warmly calls f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 596
than he who has drifted with weather and wind and tide. But it brings weariness. It wears on the mind. And the aftermath of this exhaustion involves the danger that the spirit of the world outwits you, and makes you dread still more a new course, which is attended with danger, perhaps of death. I ...
To be near unto God - pagina 597
let them feel that you care for their eternal welfare. In order that 3^ou may do this, do not separate yourself, but take part in actual life. Be at home in what the things of the world, under God's providence, provide of interest and beauty. Always keep open a space where you can meet worldly pe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 598
which brings the kindly smile to the face, but does not evoke it from the heart. Our life with God can not subject itself to the mechanical. Even as in nature, the utterance of And as life in the spiritual realm is organic. every tree unfolds a different leaf, and every stem a flower-bud of its o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 599
anxiety. Robust health or wasting disease imparts an altogether different stamp to your inner existence. After victory over self in the hour of temptation your fellowship with God is of an entirely different nature from what it is after fainting in sin and fall. Under all this the heart is always ...
To be near unto God - pagina 600
soul.Andallditions of soul influence uponthese transitions in age and conexert of themselves a necessary-our communion life with God. develops itself from what went before. Thus with the regular, undisturbed development of person there is a continual enrichment, ...
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