To be near unto God - pagina 541

whatever

anything

with

reference

to

this,

is

unbelief.

When, therefore, the Apostle says: "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord," he says nothing but what immediately flows from your confession that you believe in God the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth. For then there is nothing in your personal life, or in your family life, or in your study and work, or in anything you do, that would separate you from God, and that should not rather, provided it is You can, rightly interpreted, lead j^ou to God. indeed not sin as to the Lord. Sin separates, breaks fellowship and throws you back upon yourself. But for the rest, whether you stand behind the counter or work at your trade; whether you sit in your office; whether you lose yourself in study or devote yourself to art; whether you are at home or in other company it all can and must be one working, one activity with strength imparted of God, in things Divinely created, for a purpose which God has ordained.

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Hence the question

is

whether your

fait h,

no t

in the mysteries of salvation, no, but your faith first of all in God as Creator of heaven and earth floats with you as a drop of oil on the waters, or

whether

it

permeates

all of

your

life

and

is

applied

to everything. In case of the latter there is no division anywhere, and the man who plows and sows, the carpenter at the bench or the stonelayer, the mother who cares for her children and her home, in brief, every man and woman, in any

by you

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