November 22
"The Lord their God will save them on that day
as the flock of his people." Zechariah 9:16
Again and again the prophets refer to "that day,"
the day of the last time. The whole Bible looks
toward an unbelievably great time of God for the
sake of which all struggles, all suffering and
afflictions of the present time are as nothing.
I say frankly that it is quite new and unbiblical to
think, "It will soon be over; I shall soon die."
Neither an Israelite nor an apostle would have
thought that way. "Yes, the Lord will soon come!"--
that is biblical. People did not think of this
everlasting dying. It is only in the recent periods
of Christendom, in which the Bible is not under-
stood and nothing is known about divine history,
that death has been made the goal of life. In the
face of the Bible it is incredibly small-minded to
make death the center of all our thoughts.
Abraham did not think like this; he thought of life.
"When God comes!"--that is biblical. It sets a
limit to this present age and envisions a new
time breaking into this world, a time in which
everything will be good.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from
Jesus Is Victor, God's Day.
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A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Blumhardt's prayer for today and every day of the year.
http://blumhardts.com/bl/DailyPrayer.htm?source=Breakfast
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