To be near unto God - pagina 431

way, and revealing himself to us in mystical sensations which have a character of their own and bear an original stamp. He knows us and we are known of him, such as is not possible with another person who is differently constituted than ourselves. He is the "One Sun," which glistens

Only this, the dewGod's child can know it. And when this knowledge comes to him, he kneels ciown before "God his God." Distinguish carefully. From God's side this peculiar relation, which is different with each of his children, existed from the moment of conception and of birth; yea, already before conception differently in every dew-drop.

drop does not

know

it.

in the calling of the elect from eternity. The difference lies only on our side. Years of our life

pass by

when we indeed know God, and lead a

but only in a general sense, which is still weaned from the particular. pra}' as others pray. are one of God's children, but we are not yet discovered to ourselves as one such, in whom something special of praj^er-life before his face,

We

We

the Father is expressed. But from the general gradually the particular separates itself. That which imparts to us a character of our own, which gives us our own 'calling and makes us to be a particular person, begins to enter into special fellowship with the Lord our God. And now it is the unsearchable riches of our God, that he, who created and elected every one of his children with a particular disposition and with a proper calling, will be and can be that special God to every one of them as belongs to their nature and condition. Not a general fulfilment for all alike, but for every one of them that special fulfilment which 427

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