The life-bearer

[Bruderhof]

We want the life of Jesus Christ to be seen completely pure and clean, to
be seen alone ruling upon earth. We don’t want it to be mixed with earthly
arts and the things of earth; we want it to be pure Christ.

--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com

[Bruderhof]

Bruderhof wrote:

> We want the life of Jesus Christ to be seen completely pure and clean,
> to be seen alone ruling upon earth. We don’t want it to be mixed with
> earthly arts and the things of earth; we want it to be pure Christ.
>

Yet this is why Christ is so hidden. He will not be on earth as a human
power. Christ will not be mixed in among men as a great man among the
great. What we call great is not great to God. Those things which outwardly
make such an impression, which seem so heroic, which so impress us in an
earthly sense-those don’t impress God at all. And that is why we must take
care that we do not become mixed.

[Bruderhof]

Bruderhof wrote:

As Christ shows himself completely pure, as he alone stands before us as
the Spirit of Life, so should we Christians also remain pure and clean, not
mixing ourselves with the things of our time. Every age brings forward
earthly interests, and each century has its particular character. One can
become part of that and also lead a satisfactory life in it; but such is
not the life of God which Christ is building upon earth. That is something
entirely new, which will finally conquer all that is earthly and lead to
the coming of a new heaven and a new earth.

And so the life we have today must still be one of fighting and struggling
for the divine. But it is a life which has great promise in it. What is
hidden at present, hidden with Christ in God, finally shall be revealed.
Christ, the life-bearer, the truth-bearer, who has been hidden in God for
thousands of years, finally shall become clear to all eyes.