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To be near unto God - pagina 466
and during sleep it maintains itself and acts. The knowledge of this impar;:s rest, as one undergoes an anaesthetic, and no less that peaceful feeling with which at night we lose ourselves in sleep. "Let me sleeping wait for thee; Lord, then sleep And I peacefully," as it was sung in Hernhutt. wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 465
86'•THE SPIRITOFMANISA CANDLE OFTHE LORD." Tobe near untoGoda luxury of soul which also in unconsciousness. When a child of God that enjoyed the secret walk is put under an anesthetic for the sake of an operation, it does not break fe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 467
And though, when the thrilling of the feeling. the child shall have become a youth and a young man, this fellowship will express itself in words and in ideas, the root of this communion, even in later years, will reach deeper than the lips that speak the word. What does not the look of the eye co ...
To be near unto God - pagina 468
by contrasting by speaking of Proverbs 20:27, by contrast-plastically in several ways, mostly the heart and the reins, and alsothe bowels, or as in ing the soul with "the innermost chambers of the belly." Translating this into our language, "the soul of man" here means our conscious ...
To be near unto God - pagina 469
into pitch darkness,andof our innermost being,inthisblack darkness us with theGod meetscandle of our consciousness.Of course, our consciousness is no candle, which the Lord uses to search us. God has no need of the light of the sun by which ...
To be near unto God - pagina 471
:"ITheINTHEM AND THOUsoul's nearness toIN ME."God andour "mystical with Christ" belong together. All the apostles placed the emphasis on this; and in their writings the fathers of the Reformation, with Calvin in the lead, always referred to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 470
izedworld" for the most part God's candle in us.isblind tothelight ofThe light of this candle of the Lord in us does not argue, and does not analyze, but shows what there is in us, lays bare our own being before the eye of the soul, gives us self-knowledg ...
To be near unto God - pagina 472
there is nothing indicative in this of thirst after the living God; nothing of the child's longing for his Father's house; nothing of sacred jealousy for And from this, no the honor of God's name. spiritual power can proceed. No religion can operate in, nor go forth from, this. And what is more, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 473
prayed in his high-priestly prayer: "Holy Father, I in them and thou in me" (St. John 17:23). If, however, our mystical union with Christ shall maintain its true religious character, and not degenerate into sentimental Christolatry, this relation to Christ must never be taken as an end in itself. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 474
Andour piety only becomes energetic when we with such perfect consecration, that we know of no higher joy than to drink in his peace, no greater recreation than to be near unto him, and no holier ambition than to fight and to sufifer for his holy name. And not even service of Christ may de ...
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