Bruderhof wrote:
> So, regarding the world and the victory over it, all the apostles
> hoped for the time of Jesus’ coming. Before this time, they expected
> no true renewal of the world as a whole. Likewise, we ought not lose
> faith when, for the present, the world remains untouched and our faith
> can fight only in secret. The world is not by that token lost forever.
> It awaits the final revelation of Jesus Christ in which he will show
> himself as King of Kings.
>
Of course, a lazy waiting certainly is not appropriate, for the life of
the
faithful is itself the beginning of the end, and upon the faithfulness of
these forerunners everything depends. The Savior himself, as well as the
apostles, made note of this. To those servants "who wait for the Lord"
(Lk.
12:36), "the elect who cry to him day and night" (Lk. 18:7-8), presently
there is given, as answer to their longing, the words, "Behold, I am
coming
soon!" Their faithfulness is a power that can bear witness to people
today.
Without that, the gospel does not in itself have the piercing light that
makes people right and enlists them as comrades in arms in the company of
Jesus Christ.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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