Fragment: Joy in God

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Joy in God-revealing Himself as the God of mercy, or taking a stand-point whence mercy flows; humility in ourselves-for the presumptuous self-complacency which God's "I will" discovers to us to have been in ourselves; self-loathing-for the moral evil which our contrast to Him by whom mercy is secured to us in our need.; self-searching-lest we be deceived and merely take a place near the stand-point of mercy and be not channels of it; and self-judgment, fear-from perceiving the difference of man's use of mercy in time and God's blessing it to us for eternity: joy in God, humility in ourselves, self-loathing, self-searching, fear and self-judgment, all coalesce in the life divine in a human soul which is in God's presence. How unlike the one-sided view of the mind of the mere professor.