Bruderhof wrote:
> Bruderhof wrote:
>
>> It is an extraordinary thing and characteristic of the Lord Jesus
>> that he gives us to understand that what he is doing on earth is only
>> a beginning. Nothing is finished yet. Nothing is so complete, nothing
>> so perfect, that it is to remain unchanged from what it was in his
>> time. What he has given us is a root and not yet a tree. The seed
>> still must grow, the branches spread out; the blossoms will come
>> later. In the end the fruit will come...
>>
>
> No other man ever thought, or even thinks today, that his work goes on
> after him in such a way that he himself is the one who continues to do
> it. Only Jesus has been raised above death and thus made a beginning
> in overcoming the death of mankind, in that he says, "As I have been,
> so I remain; and I am coming."
>
In this lies the nature of the cause he founded and which he represents;
he
represents the redemption of the race-and how can that be completed in a
day? How can that be finished even in one earthly lifetime? If he had
wanted only to found a party or bring to people a new variety of religion
in which they could be prouder and more fanatical than in earlier ones,
then he could have completed it, as Mohammed and Con****ius did in their
lifetimes. But, my friends, redemption-that requires time. It is not just
for a couple of people or for a few hundred or for a party; it is for all
mankind.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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