Gold Nugget 290 - Finding God

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      Much has been made of the fact that some tribes of men have been found which had no name for God, and indeed no knowledge of him or concern to hear about him; but it may fairly be urged, from the utterly degraded condition of these tribes, that men have never lost their care for God until they have virtually lost their manhood.  Degraded to be like the beasts, they cease to have uplooking eyes and yearning hearts.  Humanity is knit in brotherhood by its great united cry for its Father. …

      Man can only find permanent rest in that which is true.  The false has no “staying power.”  It may seem to fit at one time, but life advances, new needs arise, new thoughts stir within, and the false theory will no longer serve, - the man finds himself looking out again, as anxiously as in the early days, and with the feeling that life is passing and the time for the quest is brief, for the truth and God wherein are final rest.

      Sooner or later a man wakes up from his sleep of delusion, feels the darkness all about him, and puts out his hand, feeling after God, if haply he may find him.  The unrest that surely comes to men within the world’s care and pleasure, within skeptical philosophies, and within merely ceremonial religions, is our constant plea for the preaching of the gospel and the revelation to men of God, in Christ manifest. …

      Finding God, and coming into personal relations with him, is the end of man’s quest.  Against God, and everything in life is hard and dark and wrong.  Apart from God, and all life and relations lie bathed in the lurid glow of stormy passion and self-will.  With God, and earth, life, duty, and fellowship catch the soft, sweet sunlight, and everything takes on its beauty and perfection. 

      If we have God we have all; and we have all in God, in the God whom St. Paul preached, of whose glory Jesus the Man is the express and blessed image.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Acts I p. 432, Acts 13:7, (R. Tuck)

 

Gold Nugget 290

Finding God

 

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