Bruderhof wrote:
> 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.
>
So it is a joyful thing for us to carry in ourselves the power of the
gospel: it brings light into the darkness of our world and is a help
toward
the end-time coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, when all flesh will see the
glory of God.
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
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