The capacity to hope is extremely important both for the kingdom of God and
for our own development, because something very real and powerful has been
laid in our hearts with this hope. One might say that we have been given a
power that corresponds to the power of God. A power goes forth from God to
make something of us; and from us there goes forth a hope that we shall
become something. And this power of God and our hope go together hand in
hand, as in a marriage, walking together. We in hope and God in his power,
we belong together so that we can follow a purpose, the good purpose of
God.
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Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
