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Draw nearer to God with more than 100 meditations by Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper. Kuyper begins with a reflection on Psalm 73: “As for me, it is good to be near to God,” and he offers many others. His simplicity urges you to turn and seek the face of God. As he states in the first reflection, “when the heart can say: ‘I love the Lord,’ the idea of the eternal becomes personified.” This volume...

in truth (John 4:21). This means worship without symbols, without outward forms, directly spiritually, from heart to heart. If then we are in sympathy with David’s ardent longing to dwell in the house of the Lord, we must no longer apply this to an earthly house or visible church. For this only brings us back to the dispensation of shadows. The temple of God is no more an allegorical house of wood and stone, but the great palace of our God in the heavens. For heaven is God’s dwelling place. There
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