The Lord Jesus stands humanly very near to us; I do not know my best friend
as well as I know the Savior, I can’t get inside my best friend; it is
possible that there is within him that which is not quite trustworthy.
But
as far away as the Savior is from us, we still are so well acquainted with
him through the scriptures that he is, as it were, transparent to us. With
the writings of a Cicero it is not so; though a person read Cicero as he
will, he does not thereby see into his heart. Likewise with a Plato, a
Socrates, a Virgil, all the noblest spirits—however beautifully they have
written, they still do not become our friends. But the Savior comes in
such
a way that each person can be his friend. One has only to make his
acquaintance; then everything comes of itself.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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