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To be near unto God - pagina 521
Indeed, there are bosom-sins, and fault, when the heart is so little known to itself, that no confession can be made before God of the sin that most assaults and conquers self. And it cannot fail but that everyone who takes his private life seriously is more parsurrounding. itisno m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 522
Andthus a more serious evil will always cause the struggle against a lesser evil to weaken. And such is also the case with respect to the soul. When the struggle is continued to resist and to repel the particular sin which tempts one the most strongly, a number of other sins have almost fr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 523
nearer unto God, but every time threw you backuponj^ourself.Should we then give up the struggle against the sin that tempts us most, that we might resist the numerous lesser sins? By no means. He who leaves the main entrance to a fortress unprotected merely to repel assaults ...
To be near unto God - pagina 524
holiness of God. In order to come nearer unto God, the child of God must take service under Christ in the warfare which God himself wages against Satan and his works, and thus obtain a twofold result: that whereas hitherto he suffered defeat, now he conquers, and that whereas he thus farwa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 525
Theringing of bells, the stations of the and so much more, all tended to quicken the thought of Christ. And in the age of the Reformation our fathers tried to reach the same end by putting prayer in between everything, by multiplying church services, and by the Not effort to sanctify every ...
To be near unto God - pagina 526
resisting everything that hinders or prevents ourcommunion with God. Does the church of Christ understand the interest that is here at stake? Can it begreat said,that an effort is in evidence, at least within the church, to pursue this exalted aim? As one means "to be near un ...
To be near unto God - pagina 527
is of a noble mind, a limit is put upon these differences, a spirit of love prevails, which of And where love itself opens a way of escape. dwells, the Lord commands this blessing, thatthathearts remain united. But next to this, alas, how many families there are in which pains are n ...
To be near unto God - pagina 528
ward restfulness to lift oneself up from this earthly sphere into the world above, and to enjoy the bliss of nearness unto God. And then in two ways harm is done. First, you fail of one of the most precious means of being near to God; and again you become subject to the dominion of an element tha ...
To be near unto God - pagina 529
age to speak, with being blind to wrong practices. Mere sentimental goodness is no sacred art, but cowardice. But this is sacred art: to stand strong and courageous, in everything, and yet so to take hold of things, deal with them, and settle them, that no unholy spark starts fire in your own min ...
To be near unto God - pagina 530
too busy, too overwhelmed, too much diverted and preoccupied than that at night we could retire with the blissful experience of how good it was "to be near unto God." This is, of course, exclusively a result of the sinful character of our earthly life, for by itself there was no need that anythin ...
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