If anyone wants to found a party or amount to something, he seeks friends
in the upper echelons of society. But the highest spirits, even the
highest
angels, cannot do what Jesus can. We put our hope in the professors or the
exalted spirits of various sorts. We pin our hope on the highest heights
of
heaven; and Jesus places his hope in the proletariat, the outcasts, people
whom kings and Caesars ignore, with whom they dally as with playthings of
the mighty—yet that is where Jesus sees the beginning of renewal. Will we
follow him in this? It is just here that we must confess Jesus, that is,
wholeheartedly press forward—for Jesus is there.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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