By Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Christoph Blumhardt, Vernard Eller
ISBN-10: 0802835449
ISBN-13: 9780802835444
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Everything, down to the deepest depths of the earth, even the coal mines, comes into being through the light. But what a development it all went through! There was much stirring of dust and mire, much destruction, much horror, much abomination—a fearful development—until finally there came out of the earth that which we enjoy today. In like manner, a kind of light is given in Jesus. It is directed particularly toward man and, to begin with, toward only relatively few men. But whether shining upon many or few, the power of the Spirit’s light calls people out to strive for a high purpose and not be satisfied with baseness.
As the Chinese who bind a girl’s feet are not satisfied until she is so crippled she can’t walk, so do all the nations and peoples, be they Christian or heathen, right in the midst of the organism of truth which is creation, manage to make habitual falsifiers of themselves. You must bear in mind, my friends, that we humans, even the best of us, are poor comrades to the great whole of creation. Something in us is twisted. Now, all of us were created in the image of God, an important part or—to put it pictorially—an important wheel in the great gearworks of creation.
This great, round earth with its peoples, what an unconfined playground it could be for a genuine humanity, and how small we have made it in 49 dividing up ourselves as tigers and lambs, fox and geese— with, naturally, the fox gobbling down the geese. On this earth, things go according to particular rules of animal life, and the life of the Spirit is not to be found. Of course, thought cannot go too far in this direction before we come upon a word that is very much forbidden today. Yet there is something to be said for it.
Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader by Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Christoph Blumhardt, Vernard Eller
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