Act to Philippians

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: after God ; " or you, with the light of nineteen Christian centuries shining full on you with the open Bible, with the music of God's message of reconciliation tilling the air, yet with man's noblest aspiration, the quest of God ; man's deepest, purest affection,� the love of God ; man's sublimest capacity,�the worship of God, dead or slumbering in your soul ? Alas ! you do not dream what a glory, power, joy, meaning, would come into your life if from this hour you learned to say, " 0 God, thou art my God ; early will I seek thee." HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1�11.�Soul-thirst. We may imagine the psalmist in the wilderness. It is night. He stands at his tent door. The light of moon and stars falls on a sandy waste stretching into dimness and mystery. He is lonely and sad. The emptiness of all around and the memory of better times breed a great longing in his soul. It is not as if it were something new and strange, rather it is the revival of the deepest and strongest cravings of his heart, that as he muses gather force and intensity, and must express themselves in song. The key-verses seem to be vers. 1, ?, 8. L The Soul's Longing. (Vers. 1�i.) When we " thirst for God," we naturally look hack and recall the times when we had the truest and fullest enjoyment of his presence. We think of " the sanctuary." It was not the outward glory ; it was not the splendid ritual ; it was not the excitement of the great congrogaiion ; but it was the vision of God that then brought peace and joy to the soul. And that is what is craved again�more life and fuller : " To see thy power and thy glory." There are often circumstances which intensify and strengthen our longings. When we come to know God, not only as God, but as our God and our Redeemer, we feel that it is a very necessity...