No word, I say, is fully a Word _of_
God until it is a Word _to_ man, until the man therein recognizes God.
This is that for which the word is spoken. The words of God are as the
sands and the stars,--they cannot be numbered; but the end of all and
each is this--to reveal God. Nor, moreover, can the man know that any
one of them is the word of God, save as it comes thus to him, is a
revelation of God in him. It is _to_ him that it may be _in_ him; but
till it is _in_ him he cannot _know_ that it was _to_ him. God must be
God _in_ man before man can know that he is God, or that he has
received aright, and for that for which it was spoken, any one of his
words. [Footnote: No doubt the humble spirit will receive the testimony
of every one whom he reveres, and look in the direction indicated for a
word from the Father; but till he thus receives it in his heart, he
cannot know what the word spoken of is.]
If, by any will of God--that is, any truth in him--we live, we live by
it tenfold when that will has become a word to us.
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