That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest - TopicsExpress



          

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in [humankind]. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present. If we had before our eyes only what we see, then we should cheerfully or reluctantly reconcile ourselves with things as they happen to be. That we do not reconcile ourselves, that there is no pleasant harmony between us and reality, is due to our unquenchable hope. This hope keeps [humans] unreconciled, until the great day of the fulfillment of all the promises of God. --Jurgen Moltmann (Theology of Hope)
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:28:57 +0000

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