Realities : The Miracles of God Experienced Today – Basilea Schlink Betaalbaar

Beschrijving

WE LIVE TODAY in a time like none before. The world is moving rapidly toward a peak of technological development. In all fields man is grasping after the tools of power and control. Yet at the same time we are hurtling toward unimaginable catastrophe.

A fear and a horror of that which is coming has, perhaps to some extent unconsciously, laid its grip on mankind. The threat of an atomic war spreads a crippling fear over unnumbered peoples. Mankind stands in the face of the future with no answer. What—or who—will be there to help when catastrophe strikes? Scientists and statesmen have given no answer. Yet for Christians the dark night of the future is lit by a brilliant star—the goodness of God the Father.

In the midst of a fear-ridden age, a strangely contrasting word belongs to the Christian: “Rejoice in the Lord always!” Yes, rejoice, here and now at the beginning of the Atomic Age, you who believe in a living God who is a Father to us in our Lord Jesus. For in our time God, as a true Father, will show us His help and His wonders as never before— if we call out to Him in deepest need, trust Him, and in prayer actually reckon upon His help. For He stands ready to help those who believe in His love, who truly reckon upon His Almighty power, who truly reckon that He still works miracles today. In the day of catastrophe He can protect us.

Through the horrors of an atomic war He can bear us. When we truly reckon with this almighty God, the Father of love, then in the midst of fear we can know the filling of strength and grace. We have actually experienced the love and power of God, the God who works miracles. We are a small community in Germany, still quite young. Our community came into being through the experience of the war and the judgment upon our nation, especially through the heavy bombing of our city Darmstadt Copyrighted Material in 1944.

The reality of God in His holiness—but also in His forgiving love—had started a movement of repentance and revival in the girls’ Bible classes which we were holding at that time. Over the following three years this led to the founding of our Mary Sisterhood.

Serie: Lakeland series, no. 105.
Originally published, Zondervan, 1966. translated by Larry Christenson and William Castell.

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