Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

But we must undertake great exertions if we are to beapostles of Jesus Christ. Our dead world must first be givenlight. Then it will be day. All people, all consciousness inheaven, on earth, and under the earth must know that Jesusbears all things and that he, as the glory of the sovereignGod, as Son, rules the things of this world. Then it will beday; and then redemption will rush over all heights and intoall depths.one person we know through whom things moved asthey should; he is called Jesus Christ. And thus it is thatlight has again been given to creation. Then why do youwonder at the fact that Jesus has bread for four or five thousandpeople? It amazes us; but he is simply a true man again,and that is why the powers of the world are subservient tohim. Or why are you surprised that when he touches a sickperson healing takes place? He is a true man. Things goas they should through him, under the oversight of God.He is the image of God, the Son of God. This makes hima blessing and constitutes a power that also makes othersblessed if only they come within his reach. Even people whoin themselves are perverted and godless, if only they pressto him, are touched by something of his true spirit so thatsomething comes true in them as well.as long as it depends upon the perceptions merelyof the eyes of reason, that understanding which is repre­3