According to our customary false way of thinking, the kingdom of God must
give way to our happiness. With many people the words of the Savior
already
have been altered to read: “Seek first your own blessedness, and all those
things shall be added unto you.” This is something very deceptive,
although
I know that for me to say so will rub many people the wrong way. They love
themselves; and if only they know that they are safe, they don’t much care
about the rest of the world—or at most, only so much as to say to others,
“See to it that you also get yourself saved, and then I will be happy!”
With this little error, my friends, our fellow****p with the Father is
destroyed. We are like children always coming to our parents demanding
candy, pop, and ice cream instead of being concerned about the wishes of
our parents, honoring them with fidelity and hard work, in which case our
food would come as a matter of course.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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