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To be near unto God - pagina 208
strong or weak. And when a great love itself to you, goes out after you, and begins to affect you, you likewise feel the irresistibleness of its drawing, Jesus himself calls this outgoing of love "drawing." The Father draws his elect. Of himself the Savior said I will draw all men unto me. That i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 207
with all the heart does this love begin to glow in us with real human feeling. Love of the heart is irresistible, mutual attracThe Scripture speaks of it more than once tion. When as: "a cleaving of the soul unto God." the magnet draws the steel so closely to itself that there is even no more air ...
To be near unto God - pagina 209
very great, because there is personal response. This is not the case with nature, nor with science or jurisprudence; but it is with a dog that will risk his life for j^ou.All this, however, is but the prelude of higher love, and only with man it begins to speak in richer language, and to r ...
To be near unto God - pagina 210
child otherwise^ than by disinterested kindness. And this is just what God has done for us. He has done it in Christ. In Christ he has come to us as man, to make the inequality equal, to join himself to our life and in everything to become like unto the brethren, only sin excepted. This is the gr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 211
unbounded love. Ever>'thing must go for God even as you have to look for everj'thing to God. But even this broad admission did not satisfy Jesus.Hedid not say:Thoushaltlove theLord thy God in ever>'thing. He has carefully distinguished between the h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 213
no speaking without voice. But it is the soul which employs the ear as an instrument to hear, and which speaks in the voice, if the saying shall be true. In the same way there is no drinking in of love, and no exhibition of love, without the heart; but it is always the soul that employs the heart ...
To be near unto God - pagina 212
would have done otherwise. The soul as the center of our inner life would have been mentioned first, and from this we would have derived love with the heart and mind and all our strength. Jesus, on the other hand, begins with the heart and then points to the soul, the mind and the strength. This ...
To be near unto God - pagina 214
beyond the confines of the heart. When the child that wept, laughs again, everything is over. Because the love for her child does not spring from the depths of her soul, she does not know how to love the soul of her child, hence she does not save but spoil him. So there is a love for God with the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 217
isalive,itisunconscious.Andtlioughweareaware of some consciousness in the more highly domesticated animals, it is exceedingly weak with the best of them. The glory of conscious life, which is only perfect in God, is found in man alone ...
To be near unto God - pagina 215
Have you become aware God in your inmost self?of any such lov^e for If so, do you under-stand what it means to love God in your inmost self with all your soul? Not whether there are times when this is so, but whether it has become the fixed habit of your life. Not whether you surren ...
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