Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader - Plough

answer with certainty: From those in whom the resurrectionof Christ has repeated itself, those of whom it truly is said,“Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live,and every one who lives and believes in me will never die”(Jn. 11:25-26).It is through those in whom Christ has become the resurrectionand the life, through those who have become victoriousin faith so that they trample the power of this worldunderfoot in the strength of eternity, which is the rule andpower of Christ—it is through these people that the worldendures even today. In them lives Jesus, the one risen fromthe dead. In them he rules and in them is victor. In them heis grace, is the light of the world. In them he will be glorifiedthrough all creation.The entire bible looks forward to a colossal time ofGod, to which all the struggle, need, and suffering of thepresent time are as nothing. But as I often have said, whatis completely new and unbiblical is the idea, “It will soonbe all over with me; I will shortly be dead!” No prophet orapostle ever thought that way; rather, they dwelt upon theidea, “Until our God comes! Until there comes that greattime for us!”...If one has lived a worldly, earthbound life, the dear Lordcannot make him happy even if he is the best of men. He istoo greedy for worldly things and doesn’t seek the heavenly.The time of God, which finds its center in the people of0