Category: Gerhard Tersteegen
Childhood
Soul, journeying through the desert wild, Couldst thou become a little child, Thou wouldst behold with joyful eyes God walking…
I. Let us: love, and esteem, and use the Holy Scriptures, or the Bible, according to the state and circumstances of our souls.
It is undeniably the best and most divine book in the world, and a revelation or expression of the will…
II. Let us: constantly set before us the pure and holy word, and self-denying life of Jesus Christ for our imitation.
“He that saith he abideth in him, must also walk as he walked.” We ought not to look much about…
III. Let us: never forget the doctrine of Jesus Christ
especially respecting the denial of self, and of all created things, as the primary and most necessary characteristic of his…
IV. Let us: watch over our deceitful hearts, thoughts, and affections, that we may not suffer them to wander thoughtlessly and at liberty to the creature
but continue near to God, yea, cleave unto him with our affections, desires, and inclinations. Let us also watch over…
V. Let us: also, at the same time, pray, and that more with the heart than the mouth
especially for the Spirit of Jesus, that he may rule and work in us. It is he who alone can…
VI. Let us: love one another
and exercise filial intercourse with God in our hearts, and a reverential walk in his presence; because this simple exercise,…
VII. Let us: seek, in serenity of mind, to be very faithful and attentive to the inward teachings and admonitions of the Spirit of grace.
Although we may be delivered from the law, and no longer so conscious of its threatenings, reproofs, and the terror…
VIII. Let us: avoid all unnecessary converse and hurtful association with the world and frivolous people
and likewise with those, who under the name of piety, live in false liberty, according to the impulse of the…
IX. Let us: especially beware, in all our actions, words, and gestures
both in our outward and inward walk, of all subtle hypocrisy, dissimulation, and a self-assumed deportment, which is so displeasing…
X. Let us: ever keep watch over our corrupt reason
in which the Old Serpent so gladly lurks, and endeavours under the most plausible pretexts, to allure us from simplicity…
Avoid All Unnecessary Converse and Association
Let us avoid all unnecessary converse and hurtful association with the world and frivolous people, and likewise with those, who…
The Raging Sea
Believe that you are full of sins but do not love the sins; do not worry yourself because of the…
Withdraw Yourself
You must withdraw into yourself a little and keep quiet before the face of God, then look gently and perfectly…
Thou Hidden Love of God
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathom’d no man knows,I see from far thy beauteous light, Inly I sigh…
Thou Hidden Love of God
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathom’d no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light,…
Picking Up Straws
To pick up a straw with loving intention is more to God than to remove mountains without love. Gerhard Tersteegen