September 18
We must guard against impatience. All the good
things that we strive for and hope for from God
can be taken away from us when we give way
and grow impatient. The root of impatience lies
in the urge to achieve. Nothing stimulates a
person more than being asked to do something
in keeping with his strength, his ability. Just the
pledge to do something, to improve a situation,
stirs up thousands of people. And when this
human element enters into the kingdom of God,
many people in the kingdom begin to act on
their own. God is not fast enough for them and
they rush at it and press forward according to
their own understanding. They also want
leaders, if they can find such, to whom they can
subordinate themselves and whom they can
follow with enthusiasm.
The kingdom of God comes in a different way,
however. The kingdom of God makes no call on
human strength and the exertions of the flesh.
The kingdom of God makes us quiet--and this
is the hardest thing for us. To have to see that
we are powerless in the most important affairs
of our lives, and that we must drop all our
powers, good as well as bad, is the hardest
thing for people to do.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from
Die, and Jesus Will Live, Become Like Sheep.
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