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To be near unto God - pagina 534
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 a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 538
one absorbing subject of thought. One never gets through talking about it. No sacrifice is deemed too great in its behalf. One devotes himself to it with all his soul and mind. Nothing higher is known and respected. With respect to it even brotherhoods are formed, insomuch as one is interested on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 539
occurs, even among Chrisvery opposite, to-wit: That of itselfBut what continually tians, is the allsorts of other things are subjectof thought,and that only by determinate effort the soul is engaged with God. If, now, these are every time the danger is not so not one g ...
To be near unto God - pagina 542
resentation of the matter has worked to piety and to vital godliness.muchinjuryIt goes without saying that he who ministers in the sanctuary is of itself more closely engaged with holy things, and enjoys an uncommon privilege, of which he shall give an account beforeGo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 540
:withhowSt. Paul ''Do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?" (II Cor. 13:5). :"WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO IT HEARTILY, AS TO THE LORD." God, in his word, opposes every tendency and every effort to break up life into two parts; one for ourselves and one fo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 541
be led and carried in eveiy thing byfaith.He whodivides and makes distinctions robs God of a part that is God's. If you would love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength, every subterfuge is closed off, and the all-claiming ...
To be near unto God - pagina 543
Moreover, it must be granted that in our extremely defective condition certain definite and special consecration of a part of our life, of our strength and of our money to religious activities and interests is necessary. You can not serve God all the days of your life in such a way but that the d ...
To be near unto God - pagina 544
but to be true and genuine, it must be a golden thread that maintains its glistening brightness throughout all of life. It all depends on whether you truly believe that God is almighty, the Creator of heaven and life,earth.Whether you believe and consider thatevery material y ...
To be near unto God - pagina 545
anythingwhateverwithreferencetothis,isunbelief.When, therefore, the Apostle says: "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord," he says nothing but what immediately flows from your confession that you believe in God the Father Almighty ...
To be near unto God - pagina 546
positionoflifewhatsoever,from God, but alwaysneverlaborapartandin hisin his creationservice.Then to be near unto God, the fellowship with the Eternal, the secret walk with him who knoweth the heart, is no sweet-sm ...
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