Plunge In
Martin Luther
Discipleship is not limited to what you can understand ? it must transcend
all comprehension.
Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own understanding, and I will help
you to comprehend.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is
the true knowledge.
In this way Abraham went forth from his father, not knowing where he was
going. That is the way
of the cross. You cannot find it in yourself, so you must let me lead you
as though you were a blind
man.
Not the work which you choose, not the suffering you devise, but the road
which is contrary to all
that you choose or contrive or desire ? that is the road you must take. It
is to this path that I call you,
and in this sense that you must be my disciple.
More on truly following God's call...
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ha/BornAgain.htm
Source: Martin Luther (1483-1546), quoted in Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "The
Cost of Discipleship."
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