Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

satisfied merely to have a religion, as the heathen have a religion,even if a little different. God puts no store by our religion.When he finds it impossible to come down and helppeople, he prefers to permit them to become irreligious.In Egypt, the children of Israel were allowed to do as theypleased, and they became religiously dissipated. But Godundertook their cause anyway, because his help does not dependon religion but on his own faithfulness and mercy andpower and on the hearts that wait for him to come down.In this we want to be united, in this hope and in the assurancethat God sees the destitute on earth and then says,“There, now I will arise; now I will do it and bring relief.”And we know that on the day of Jesus Christ a great restitutionis yet to come!CFBL, 1:239-44 (#49). Table talk of February 12, 1886.254