October 24
When people are free from worrying about their
daily bread, what is there that they cannot
achieve! It does not take much, only freedom
from anxiety. People must be so deeply bound
together that they know, "When I need help,
others will come to my aid." But if they say, "I will
gather so much for myself that I will never need
the others, and so that I am rich and the other is
poor," this is the ruin of any society of Christ. I
do not think much of such spiritual communities;
they do not last. Unless we have community in
the body, in material things, we will never have it
in spiritual matters. We are not spirits. We are
men of flesh and blood. Every day we must eat;
we must have clothing for every season.
This is how Jesus wants to put an end to
worries. Yet nowadays people disregard his will.
People in all kinds of impossible situations are
expected to have faith. They live in wretched huts,
they almost perish of misery and need, and we
come along and say to them, "You must just
have faith."
The kingdom of God cannot be simply a future
state. Each one of us should seek to become
united in the living Church of Jesus Christ and
to get free in such a way that at least among
those who think and feel alike, anxieties will
cease.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from
You Belong to God, Joy in the Lord.
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