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To be near unto God - pagina 167
imagination, does it form one whole. All these together constitute that full knowledge of God, is eternal life. Only do not lose from sight that the daily increase in the knowledge of God is obtained solely and alone in the way of the will. There is a two-fold will of God: the one is over us, the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 170
towilllikethisofourselves,we become con-formed to our Father who is in heaven. The words of Jesus: Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, are then realized in us; they are realized in this particular; and consciouscome ...
To be near unto God - pagina 168
How could this be otherwill. does not come into action by what is written about it in a book, or preached on it from the pulpit. It is the Lord who inspires the will to act, and in action to direct it for good. It is he "who worketh in you both to will and God through the The willwise? ...
To be near unto God - pagina 169
takes no part in this transitionis leftin the rear.The whole church will understand that she loses power when she adheres to the old, without harmonizing her insight into the past with the claims of our clarified consciousness. She then Her preaching does loses her touch upon ...
To be near unto God - pagina 171
that eternal life is a right that belongs to the man of study, and not to the swain who followsAnd we know this can not be true. If God is eternal life, the increasesheep?the knowledge ofknowledge must be forsale for something at every one's disposal, the profes ...
To be near unto God - pagina 175
moves him along, so he goes, and so turns the rudder in his inner purpose, and the tiller, and the hand that is upon it, i. e., his will. He This is altogether difis a man without a will. ferent when there is direction in the ship. Then the man at the helm directs the course. He knows where he wa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 172
the knowledge of God, and thereby to obtain ever larger possession and fuller enjoyment of eternal life, provided we separate this utterance of the will less and less from the will of God and derive it more and more from the will of God. Thus every idea of cruelty falls away. Whether life is limi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 174
almost every one has some sort of a manuel, if possible, from which to learn how the body is constructed, nothing is read about the soul. By far the larger numbers of people do not investigate it, but speak at random about the soul, and about the will, and the understanding, and everything is in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 173
32'WHO WORKETH IN YOU TO By wedoing willingly whatGodwillsWILL." us to do,knowledge of God; not in barren book-knowledge, but in living soul-knowlThis springs edge, which is itself eternal life. from all sorts of causes, but not least from the fact that o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 177
child, that he has his throne in the inmost recess of the child's soul, and thus has fellowship with him, not from afar, but in the sanctuary of his own person. There God worketh upon us by day and b}^ night, even when we are not conscious of it. He is our Sculptor, who can'es in us the image of ...
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