To be near unto God - pagina 437

this

is

''The

what the Psalmist suggests, when he sings: Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand."

And

thus the Divine tenderness of highest love mingles itself in the comforting. God leaves you not alone. The journey through the wilderness can not be spared you. The heat must burn. But the Lord looks after you. He comes to you. His approach to you is very close. He takes a stand between the heat of the sun and you. He takes you by the hand. He covers you with the shade of his majestic greatness. And so you go on your way rejoicing, refreshed by God's love and covered by his holy shade. All

this

is

poetry.

We know

it

well.

But

though it be such, this does not make it fiction. There is that which no eye has seen and no ear has heard and has not entered the heart of man, but which, already, here God gives to be understood, to be seen and to be enjoyed by those who have been initiated into his secret walk. God can be far removed from us. He can also be close at hand. This depends on his grace. This depends upon the inward condition of the soul. This much is certain, that when he is close at hand and the heat of the day threatens to bring prostration, then he is your shade, and you feel the cool of it on your right hand. The cooling effect which the shade of God brings, must be felt. It must be felt in the soul. And if you do not feel it, may it not be because you are not near unto God? 81

"HE INCLINES HIS EAR UNTO ME." The

ear

is

our hearing

inclined toward someone, either when impaired, or when he to whom we

is

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