Thy Kingdom Come

more grand than the old Testament. Veritably, God lived with man; and man knew him through his deep and won­ derful acts.

Consider once how poor we would be if we did not know of these gracious acts of God. If we always had to think of God in philosophic modes, how could we ever truly speak of him or to him? Yet every child can know this: God is like a father who does good to his children, who will be humane toward mankind. And because of these gracious acts of God, we are now, in particular, to be reconciled in Christ. It is there, indeed, that God has come in the flesh, has revealed himself as flesh...Jesus would be truly human man, on that account calling himself the Son of Man; and in him, God himself draws near to man. one must have norms, even for the Bible. And in this case it is Christ, as he is presented by the apostles. Wherever in scripture I cannot make that norm fit, then that passage is not for me until I can make it fit. Many times, then, I must wait until the teaching comes, until finally it is given to me.

(Johann Christoph Blumhardt) They will sit at thy feet and learn of thy words (Deut 33:3, according to Blumhardt’s German translation). When you place yourself before that which our beloved God has spoken, then you are at the feet of God. Yet this happens only 10