November 28
In our times many issues arouse people; their
outward life makes great demands on them.
More than at any other time, it would seem, man
raises himself powerfully in his human search
and progress. Powers which people of earlier
times hardly dreamed of are now opening up
for us. Everybody finds himself in the position to
make use of these new inventions and these
new forces for his own purposes. Man's whole
earthly life depends on this. If he were to shut
his eyes to these things, he would lag behind
and finally perish in his earthly life. There is a
spirit of intellectual accomplishment that
pushes the concern for God's kingdom to one
side, so that one no longer knows quite what it
is all about.
Precisely for this reason we must begin to speak
of God's kingdom in a new way. In spite of
present-day conditions, where much of the
church and of Christian fellowship is almost
dead, we can speak of God's kingdom to people
of our time. The kingdom of God is and was and
will be the rulership of justice, of order, power,
and law--of all that is of God's creation.
This, my friends, is what moves us men and
women, and this must come into being. Unless
our lives are molded according to this rulership,
we shall always remain dissatisfied. In spite of
all the achievements of our time, we shall not
be able to boast one single advantage in our
lives. We may find conveniences, but the revival
of the eternal things in us human beings will be
smothered unless God's being--his eternal
rules and laws, his truth and justice--dawns in
you as the light of life.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from
Christoph Blumhardt and his Message, God's Kingdom.
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