Phineas F. Bresee - A Prince In Israel - Media Sabda Org

thought and feeling or emotion. When thought begins to act, and feeling to come in, there is usually
an outcry; but when thought becomes strong and concentrated and feeling intense, outcry ceases.
When there is the beginning of determination, and feeling begins to work, there is effort to give it
expression, but when it becomes all-pervasive, it takes on the awful quietness of the depths. Such
do not declare they are they do.
We are through with arguments, at the end of appeals. We are waiting upon the Lord, gazing to
see the glory of His face, to feel the thrill of His utterance; stretching out our hands to touch the hem
of His garment, etc. We are in one mighty effort of discovery: to see the unseen, to know the
unknown. We hear Him say, "Be still, and know that I am God."
What does this mean? I confess that I am overwhelmed. I am not in the full sense confounded,
but I am in the sense of being overwhelmed. As I think, I tread giddy heights; I go down into
unexplored depths. The horoscope of finite things has lifted, and the infinite eternities press me.
The King of the Palace
I have discovered the King of the palace of earth and of the ages. How long and how vainly I
sought Him in the palace itself, and through the ages! I sought in the cities and in the solitudes. I
inquired diligently. I was shown the print of His feet and His finger prints; but Him I found not. I
traversed the ages. I saw strange, marvelous things. I made diligent inquiry and I was shown many
things that were intimately associated with Him; but Him I found not.
In my longing I went into the solitude of my own being. My eyes began to feel a new anointing,
and I began to see that the Author of my being must be Spirit, infinite Spirit, and that He could be
discerned only in the Spirit, by the Spirit. I felt a strange touch on my ears, and I heard a strange
word, "Ephphatha," and I heard, "Be still." The light flashed through my own being, and the heavens
were aflame with light. As in the twinkling of an eye, I became a new being. With the rising of the
sun, I was filled with light. And I began to see God. In the beginning God in the end God. In time,
God; in eternity, God. God over all, blessed for ever. God in His Son, Jesus Christ. God in the Holy
Ghost.
He breaks the chains and makes us free. He cleanses us, and makes us pure. He empowers us, and
causes us to walk in His commandments.
Nothing transforms men but the manifestation of the divine presence. It is this that makes us men,
worthy men, Christly men; that lifts us out of contaminating conditions, and regulates our relations
to the universe.
To Know God
To know God as God is to know Him in fellowship. Moses in one of his trying days, cried out to
God, "I beseech thee, show me thy glory." There had been great sin; the tables of stone were broken.
God had talked with Moses, and had said, "My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."