Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

of God...We certainly will not be deceived if, out of presentevents, we read the mind of God, the mind which leads outof the old system of the rule of the worldly church and intoa new and fresh life of truth.a judgment runs through our time. A finger of truthpoints to this and that lie or deception in custom and religion.A finger of justice demands that we follow the voiceof truth and consider whether everything shouldn’t be donedifferently.After the human race has continued to live on in tranquilitythrough the centuries, never having been jolted or shakenby the surging waters of history, then all sorts of comfortsmake themselves at home by way of habit and custom. Finally,these come to be seen as being of God. Then it canhappen that everything is done only with the considerationof defending human arrangements, because it appears thatin these consist the survival of society. It looks as thougheverything would break apart if these time-bound arrangementswere to tumble.Once a person has made a specialty out of a bad business,he often is too cowardly to hold it up to the judgment ofGod for itself and against himself. Thus we can see that awhole lot of nonsense and superstition has crept into Christianity;it is easy enough to spot shortcomings and perversitiesin our religious institutions. However, people havegotten themselves used to these things and so take them all117