Do Not Weep...
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: September 12, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Regeneration / Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Freedom
How the Lord comforts us in times of need
(Luke 7:11-17; Arcana Coelestia 379, 5691, 9737)
In many passages in the Word, mention is made of praising God, which signifies to confess Him with the heart and mouth, thus also to worship Him. Praising God is signifies the same thing as Hallelujah, for [the word] Hallelujah signifies "Praise ye God."
The reason why praising God signifies to confess and worship is that the Lord does not desire to be praised or glorified from any love for Himself, but from His love for man. For a person cannot do otherwise than praise and glorify the Lord…when he acknowledges in heart that there is nothing good in himself, and that he can do nothing from himself, and on the other hand that all good is from the Lord, and that the Lord can do all things. When a person is in this acknowledgment he then puts away his proprium, whose origin is the love of self, opens the whole of his mind, and thus enables the Divine to enter by influx with good and with power. It is therefore necessary that a person be in humiliation before the Lord, and that such humiliation be from no other source than the acknowledgment of his own [nature] and the acknowledgment of the Lord; according to these things reception takes place. (Heavenly Secrets #1210 - portions)
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