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To be near unto God - pagina 356
with you, as shepherd of my people," but far better: "I will walk in the midst of you" (Dutch version). The Lord going forth with his people, and at every step of the way the people being conscious of his nearness and of their fellowship with God. This can be fellowship from both sides, a walking ...
To be near unto God - pagina 355
connected with us by fixed ties, is collective. There is a collective life of the family, of the church, of callings and professions, and of nations. that there is vital fellowship with God in the secret places of the soul, is not enough. In the family also, in the church and in social life fello ...
To be near unto God - pagina 358
undous, and we hold ourselves fast by God for protection against evil. And we may stumble, but even in the act of it, refuge will be taken with the unseen Companion who walks at our side. He will be invoked for forgiveness and help. And he who knoweth whereof we are made, will show mercy a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 357
tendency of the heart, not to seek, but to be delivered from, God, the favor of Gold to usward turns into holy antipathy. Thus the pathway of life is walked with God in enmity and in bitterness, and the Holy Spirit is grieved. This does not happen with a child of the world. He does not walk with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 359
been upborne by the example, sympathy and fellowship of what is called the people of God. This is a sacred appellation, which no single group may arbitrarily appropriate to itself, and which is only real where God himself walks in the midst of those who share his favor. We are at once aware in fa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 360
in the midst of us, because he is the source of our light, of our strength and of the inspiration ofour hfe. 66"THAT THOU MAYEST CLEAVE UNTO HIM." Sin nowhere makes more rapid advances than in religion. Religion is the service of the Triune God. It is the highest and best that enric ...
To be near unto God - pagina 361
administered, where there is no church of Christ, or small, and where there are not some deeply spiritual souls that live very "near unto God." This makes no secret of the fact however that in thickly-populated centers and even in larger villages the great majority of people are either dead to th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 362
be for this faithful Father, who is not moved to ask in despair, whether constant, inward, tender, ever-in-grace increasing piety has not become impossible for us? This question can only in part be answered in the affirmative. Sin works effects which enervate and weaken, so that even in the most ...
To be near unto God - pagina 363
right to assert that religion consists of confession. It posits the claim of an holy life, and of abounding in good works, but deprives us of the illusion that true piety can ever be satisfied with this. It certainly demands high esteem for outward forms of Divine service, but resists the error w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 365
spent with God increase, and the moments of separation from God decrease. To cleave unto the Lord with all the heart and soul and consciousness is then at first a heavenly joy which may be tasted only once in a whole month. Gradually it becomes a communion of soul without which no week passes. By ...
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