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Shut-Ins
Beyond doubt the Lord has a few shut-ins. The line that
bounds their view is only a little way out. They live in a
little world of self-interest, of petty cares, of wearying
anxieties, of vexing circumstances. They see only the seen
things. They live in a small enclosure, and we have grave
fears that with some the enclosure is growing smaller
every day. A cataract of worldliness is growing over their
eyes. There is closeness of fellowship with God, intimacy
of communion, blessedness of trust, freedom from care,
worry, and fret that they have never discovered. They
never get up into that upper region where life stretches
out in holy contemplation of God and the glorious
realities that the Lord has for Christian souls. Listen at
their talk. It is almost continually about the things of
the little world of which they are acquainted. If they
should be induced to say a word about the spiritual
blessings in heavenly places, ii is very vague, unreal and
incomprehensive. They can talk fluently of the happenings
in the neighborhood and of their own affairs, but have no
interest in conversing about the beauty of God, of joys
unspeakable, of the sweetness of meditation, and the
glorious freedom of the soul.
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