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This morning, Breakfast with Blumhardt had, once again, an interesting relevance...

= Breakfast with Blumhardt =

October 29, 2004

If we remain in the petty, selfish attitude in which everyone has his own "dear Savior" and cooks himself a nice sweet pudding to eat comfortably to his heart's content, we will remain without Jesus, without the one who says, "I am the light of the world." We will not become children of God. We will not get away from our own nature.

We do not really know how to live in a way worthy of God. We remain always the same miserable people, stirring around in our own nature. So we go to pieces and finally complain to heaven that God does not care about us. Certainly God does not care about your selfish interests. He came into the world. If you want to meet the Savior then you must go out into the world, leaving behind your personal concerns. Be on guard against your own pettiness and seek the world. There you will find Jesus.

Of course I don't mean that world which is penetrated by sin and death. That is a false world. Jesus says, "I come into God's creation. I am here to serve this creation of God, so that God's will may be done, and so that one day it may be as in the beginning, when God saw everything that he had made, and said it was very good." We have to find the way into this creation.

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from Christoph Blumhardt and his Message, The Light of the World.