Wherever faith has been original, wherever it has proved itself to be real, it has invariably had upon it a sense of the PRESENT God. The holy Scriptures possess in marked degree this feeling of actual encounter with real Person. The men and women of the Bible talked with God. They spoke to Him and heard Him speak in words they could understand. With Him, they held person-to-person interaction, and a sense shining reality is upon their words and deeds. It was this that filled with abiding wonder the first members of the Church or Christ. The solemn delight which those early disciples knew sprang straight from the conviction that there was One in the midst of them. They knew that the Majesty on the heavens was confronting them on earth: They were in the very Presence of God. And the power of that conviction to arrest attention and hold it for a lifetime, to elevate, to transform, to fill with uncontrollable moral happiness, to send men singing to prison and to death, has been one of the wonders of history and a marvel of the world. Our fathers have told us and our own hearts confirm how wonderful is this sense of Someone there. It makes religion invulnerable to critical attack. It secures the mind against collapse under the battering of the enemy. They who worship the God who is present may ignore the objections of unbelieving men. Their experience is self-verifying and needs neither defense nor proof.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:49:27 +0000
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