July 20
People want a new form of society. But that will
fail because people cannot found a new social
order and then force people to fit into it. They
can, however, set about it the opposite way--
they can let themselves be transformed, and
then see the change in the social order. It will
change by itself.
If from the beginning we had been true to the
Lord, who is the new man, and who wants to
create the genuine light in all people, we would
have had a different, better, and more genuine
social order. If all who have used his name had
been faithful--if they had not slipped back into
yearning for human achievements,
accomplished in falsehood--they would have
become decisive comrades of their Lord and
Master. If they had stayed faithfully on the
foundation of this great man of humankind, they
would not themselves have become lords and
masters, bishops and popes. But they became
unfaithful; they no longer had in mind what the
new man is really all about.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from
You Belong to God, The New Man.
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