When people come to me in their misery, I always have the feeling, “Oh,
here it should be easy to help!” Even when I see a ruined body before me,
or someone in the clutches of hell, I often get the powerful impression,
“If only these folks had the love of God, they would be helped; but oh,
the
superstitions and the idols!” They think about all sorts of things, but
God
does not come into their hearts...And so people passionately hold on to
that which destroys them. This is the distress of lovelessness toward God.
Don’t look so much on your personal sins; nothing comes of staring at
them.
Hang on to God; look to him. Otherwise, even if you repent and believe,
you
are still not converted; your life does not depend upon God. A simple,
sober reverence for God, seeking of God in the spirit, the soul’s being
filled with love for God—by these we can overcome. But we must be whole
people.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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