Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.
Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope.
To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.
The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.
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