Leave for a while your begging before God and seek first the way, the way
in which we truly can know God, by recognizing our guilt and in truth
seeking only the righteousness of God in his rule upon earth. Put aside
your own suffering and start doing honest works of repentance, doing them
with joy, not with sighing and complaining, giving God the glory in body
and soul. Then accept your guilt and its judgment and become a true
person.
Thus, through Christ, you will be bound to God; and your own suffering and
need will fade of itself.
Turn about in the inward man and, instead of looking at yourself and all
your need, look to the kingdom of God and its need; it has been held back
for so long because of the false nature of man. Then you can be confident
that God will treat you as a true child who is seeking his honor, and you
will not come to shame in this life.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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