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To be near unto God - pagina 21
with greatest reverence, it is equally sure that God has pointed them out to us for this end. To picture this Divine fellowship the Scripture even borrows figures from animal life. Jesus illustrated his tender love for Jerusalem by the figure of the hen that gathers her chickens under her wings. ...
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~Life can only be fully developed by our dwelling together under one roof tree. The family home is the nursery of love. It is the outward encircling with the tie of the closer fellowship of life. Thus we see that in Scripture the house or tent is given us as an aid, by which fellowship wit ...
To be near unto God - pagina 23
mThis means worship withoutward forms, directly spiritually, from heart to heart. If then we are in sympathy with David's ardent longing to dwell in the house of the Lord, we must no longer apply For this to an earthly house or visible church. this only brings us back to the dispensation o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 24
who stand before the Lord. God's house will afford the opportunity for fellowship with him, but in it we will look for God himself. One must live with a person in his house in order to enjoy his company to the full. But the house without him is nothing. He himself angels and the saints,the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 25
HE WILL REGARD PRAYER. Does the Lord regard prayer onlyafter long delay? Is He not omnipresent? Is not the whispered prayer known to Him before there is yet a word in the tongue? Can the All-Knowing One first stand apart, indifferently as it were, and only gradually perceive that we pray, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 26
are we so far his superior that the thoughts which arise in us were foreign to him? has ever outlined God's omnipresence and omniscience in terms of finer poetic imagery than he? Are not the expressions in which we clothe our prayers for the most part borrowed from his writing? Did notWho ...
To be near unto God - pagina 27
Before the days of the Bethlehem birth God spoke to us in the human word, but in Christ God He reveals himself is manifest in human nature. to us as the son of Man. A human heart speaks here in human language and in human ways. As the Apostle John asserts: In Jesus they have not only seen and hea ...
To be near unto God - pagina 28
abstract ideas about the immensities of God in the place of this heart-to-heart intimacy which can not be cultivated with God except in a human ^way? Let us leave this to philosophers who do not pray, and to theologians dry-as-dust who are not children of their Father in heaven. But as for us, le ...
To be near unto God - pagina 29
from God, and we imagine that God's part in our prayer only begins when he hears and answers it, then indeed we face an insoluble riddle. But if we take it in the other, truer way, and make it clear to our mind that God has quickened our prayer-life and that he directs and carries it, the matter ...
To be near unto God - pagina 30
from the depths of the heart. Prayers which fully harmonize with our own desires and inclinations. Prayers in which not merely a passing thought, but the whole person expresses himself. Prayers in which the soul truly pours itself out risebefore the Holy One.God once.allows u ...
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