Section 8
and works a miracle on his behalf so that he re covers. Thereafter, he testifies to the fact that God is the living God. Yet within a short time of his recovery, he plunges right into the world. Even when he is living in the world, he still re members that God is the living God and that God preserved his life from death. But he has experienced no increase of divine life; he has ex perienced only a miracle of healing.
Another brother becomes ill. Day after day passes without a vestige of improvement. For a long time he keeps hovering at the edge of the grave. Then, when he has completely despaired of living, in the depths of his being he gradually becomes aware of God. Resurrection life begins to work within, and he awakens to the fact that this resurrection life is a life that can overcome all affliction and can even swallow up death. He is still conscious of much weakness and is sorely tested; nevertheless, the realization deepens that God is not working to make His might known in external acts but is working to impart Himself. Light breaks upon him gradually, and gradually health returns. This brother does not just expe rience a healing; he comes into a new experience of God. The first brother could testify to a mira cle wrought in his body and, shortly after, could