God lets us meet him in Christ; and in the days of the apostles when there
was talk of faith, of being true until death, everyone who belonged to the
body of Christ knew what course his faithfulness would take. Something
came
over these people, something to which none of them had given thought and
which none of them would have been able to explain. Suddenly they found
themselves part of a history that proceeded of itself and in which such
wonderful powers were discovered that the inevitable impression was:
“These
powers are stronger than the whole world.”
In this situation people had a perfectly clear picture of what God is.
There was no need to look up to heaven; the occurrences took place on
earth; they were bound up with naming the name of Jesus.
In that regard, we ought not to be ashamed frankly and openly to call our
Christ “God,” because, with only mental pictures of God, nothing gets
started. Our Christ has become Yahweh; he stands upon earth and calls to
us, “I am.” And we need not make a big ceremony of it but simply fall
before him, knowing in him the living God, the Father in heaven. Then,
once
we’ve met him, we feel ourselves on solid ground which does not quake but
from which the mountains of God’s sovereignty burst forth to overwhelm us,
as, in the final cataclysm, they shall overwhelm the whole world.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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