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To be near unto God - pagina 561
workings in the spiritual atmosphere. But the incident with Peter shows that you might be mistaken. That there might have been an attack of Satan when you did not in the least suspect And in any case, that the daily prayer: it. '"Deliver us from the Evil!" is no superfluous eralwealth for ...
To be near unto God - pagina 562
Be, therefore, on your guard.become awareAs soonof spiritual coolness, asasyousoon as youperceive that this, that or the other thing renders difficult or prevents you from being, and continuing, near unto God, then consider what influences you are ...
To be near unto God - pagina 563
and wooed him. yet he tarried.The crown awaited him.HestillButremained in the sphereof this world. Not because it attracted him. On the contrary, between the risen Savior and the world, which was still submerged in misery, every tie of connection was seve ...
To be near unto God - pagina 564
and that for those many days he forewent the glory which awaited him on God's throne. But this could not last. The end must follow. It was an holy pause in his glorification, entered upon from love, but which of necessity had to be It could not, and was not, as short as possible. permitted to be ...
To be near unto God - pagina 565
of our soul to look for God's throne not in our proximity, nor yet underneath, but above us. The heavens are God's throne and the earth is his footstool. We look up to the heavens, from whence light comes to us, where God's stars twinkle in the firmament, from whence rain descends to us and water ...
To be near unto God - pagina 566
that heaven, stare atit, and call to it and supGod, or he who alone could do would rend those heavens, and afford us accessplicate, that our it,again to them.And this prayer has been answered in Chriat. First in that he descended from heaven, and then in that he ascend ...
To be near unto God - pagina 567
sacred mystery, a restless ascent of our faith, our love and our hope up to the throne of glory. By his ascent up to heaven Jesus has not become farther removed from us, but he has come What now vibrates and lives and nearer by. operates is fellowship between the King of glory and his saints on e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 568
But for him, for her. of spirituality. believes, the heavens are opened, and from thence pours forth into the darkness of this world and into the darkness of our own heart, a soft, blessed glow of light, love and Ufe. And the souland lackwhothatischerished there ...
To be near unto God - pagina 569
the "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani" Jesus quoted Psalm 22 and of itself there could be no plural used whenever the Son of God practiced fellowshipwith theFather.Jesus as such stoodalone, in holy isolation.And thoughentirelymaynot be in that exa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 570
and the miseryof lifemay makeitselfknownina particular way to each of us. This, however, does not take away the fact that all sin and misery flows from one common source, that it makes us sharers of a common lot, and that it should move us unitedly to cal ...
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