“the people” are saying; and so they look around and wind up going the way that all “the people” are going. Have you not noticed that childlike individuals most of ten are looked upon by others as evil? I can think of many who were looked at cross-eyed their entire lives, simply be cause of their childlike demeanor, even though there was truth and the power of living in them. Many such people never get recognized, because childlikeness is of no use to our society. It needs clever and ruthless people who can ex ercise power over others; but the childlike must always seem to be on its way out. As the Lord Jesus, in his childlikeness and humility, had to stand against the religious laws of his day and thus get himself murdered, so it still goes today. a person must be converted twice; once from the natural man to the spiritual, and then again from the spiri tual man to the natural. (Johann Christoph Blumhardt)
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