FINDING GOD

WE are accustomed to think of God as above us. So He is. "The heaven is His throne, the earth His footstool," and eternity His dwelling-place. 

God is also beneath, as well as above and around us. Men are apt to seek Him by looking above, trying to rise to His throne, and find Him there. But there sinners never find Him. To us that throne is unapproachable. "The throne of grace," where we can find God, is beneath. We find it, not by rising but by sinking.

In the depths of humiliation, where the soul lies dissolved in penitence, emptied of pride, lust, selfishness, and self-will, where its only cry is mercy, its only hope grace, and its only hold the "faith of the Son of God," there we find God. 

There God reveals Himself to the " humble and contrite in spirit," and takes up His abode with them. All that seek God there, find Him. 

To them " His name is a strong tower." 

They " flee into it and are safe."