The Living Christ
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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...
--
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
www.blumhardts.com
Bruderhof
> 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."
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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 Confucius 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.