The Footsteps of the Flock: Scripture Studies for Every Sunday of the Year (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

G. H. Morrison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333688695 ISBN 13 : 9781333688691

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Footsteps of the Flock: Scripture Studies for Every Sunday of the Year

When we study the methods of our Lord Jesus Christ, we see how gradually He communicated truth. He loved to work in a slow and steady way, leading His disciples forward step by step. I have yet many things to teach you, He said to them once, but ye cannot hear them now. Where, think you, did the divine Son acquire that method? Were not His activities moulded upon His Father''s ways? In the slow and gradual method of Redemption is the parallel and crown to the Creation. I wonder if the writer of Genesis was never tempted to make all creation the work of a single instant. Would it not have been a thought of infinite grandeur to have pictured the whole as accomplished in a ?ash? If he had done that, he would have shut his heart to the voice divine that was inspiring him, and men to-day would have been smiling at the crude fancies of an oriental dreamer. But here, there is nothing sudden and appalling; there is sure and steady progress onward and upward; and all the discoveries of all the sciences are helping to explain and to confirm that truth. We need not try to make the ''days'' symbolical. When the writer says a day he means a day. God did not break the cup His child held up to Him; He cleansed it and filled it with the living water. The wonder is that in this artless narrative, and under these figures of the early world, there should be found that truth of Gods procedure which to-day is dominating the thought of men.

HE third is that man is God''s masterpiece the diapason closes full in man.'' At the festival of creation, as at the feast of Cana, the best wine was kept unto the last. And how was man the greatest of God''s works? Was it because there were giants in those days? Not so but because on man alone there was the impress of the Creator''s nature. He only was created in God''s image he only could have fellowship with God he only could enter into the though

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333688695
• ISBN 13: 9781333688691
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
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