Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY CHARLOTTA
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§viuin1v§ESUS said, "I am in the Father and the Fair
4{> ther in me." John also speaking in abit
Q' stractive terms says, "He that dwelleth in
'P 5' God dwelleth in love, for God is love."
§'***`f**`f*k It seems to bring us into nearer relationship
with our Father to think of him according to his attributes.
If I say "I dwell in God," I am liable, because
of wrong conceptions, to limit him or to think of him as
a great king far away in the skies. sitting aloof from
our minute affairs. But when I say "I dwell in love," he
at once appears above, beneath, and around me, yea even
within me, and the words of the poet can best express
my feelings:
"Worlds of extatic Glory
Love opens to our view,
Where saints and angels truly
Find joys forever new."
The soul is at once made conscious of having entered
a vast and unexplored domain,
A
"A shoreless sea of bliss."
0 Love Divine! to what can it be likened? It is a
never-ending song, an unbounded treasure, a consuming
fire, before which no error or sin can stand. It is a
light which goeth not out, the source of all faith and
omnipotent power, a sure and safe retreat in which the
soul can ever repose. When I consider the work of his
hands, my soul is borne away far above this world of