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To be near unto God - pagina 79
He imparts power to the soil, where hidden from human eyes, it makes the seed germinate and sprout. And such is the case with God, both as to operations and antithesis. His throne is high above us in the heavens. By His omnipresence God is close by and all around us. He has access to the heart. H ...
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worship of images or of spirits, but the calm and reverent adoration of the wandering Bedouin, as beneath such wondrous skies he beheld the stars by night and the glory of the sun by day until at length, swayed by ecstacy, he imagined that this dazzling, majestic, all-pervading and governing sun ...
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them that walk uprightly(Ps. 84:11). It raises grateful echoes in the heart. But, alas, they are not original with us. Among rich and poor we speak of a sunshine in the house. But who volunteers to confess from long experience: The Lord has been a Sun unto me all my days, and will be till ...
To be near unto God - pagina 80
Lord, is the fountain of life," or "In Thy light shall we see light," or "The Lord is the Sun of soul," it all means: With God the soul hasmyThe source of all it is dead. power is God. Everything, in brief, that makes the sun unspeakably precious in the world of nature God is to the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 81
countenance the onward way is seen with heavenly clearness, and the journey is resumed with fresh courage, the whiles the sun from on high cheers and sanctifies the heart. The image of the sun is also significant with respect to the fact that the shining of God's face upon the heart is not an unb ...
To be near unto God - pagina 87
honesty we can say: Such is not my my dependence, my lack of strength and my utter helplessness, then that we might have fellowship with God, we must unlearn our sinful leaning on people. We need not necessarily cut ourselves loose from every one. Far from it. The faith of another strengthens our ...
To be near unto God - pagina 84
by the mother hen. And that they can only be safe and warm in her immediate presence under the cover of her outspread wings. This striking word of our Lord was borrowed from the figurative language of the Old Testament, which also in turn explains it. The first verse of Psalm 91: "He that dwellet ...
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on until God's time of help arrives. Then clouds scatter and are driven away. Spring returns in the soul, the prelude to glorious sunshine. And in the end we thank God for the cold impoverishment of spiritual winter, which makes spring and summer all the more appreciated and enjoyed.Anothe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 85
serve to portray what it is "to be near unto God," to make it, as it were, visible to our eyes and perceptible to our feelings, is entirely in keeping with the order of creation. It corresponds to the divinely appointed state of things. It appeals to us as altogether natural. But this symbolism m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 86
uniting of heart to fear the name of God; no experience of secret fellowship with God. If God does not exist outside of our thought, the self-sufficient soul can not come near to God, nor can it dwell in his tent. Every deeply spiritual life in Holy writ protests against this danger. Such was not ...
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