as we are—but we cannot square our conduct with the word of God. The word, in consequence, avenges itself because we no longer can hear it and we are left alone. It may be that, in an unprofitable way, we boast how good or wise or pious we are; yea, we set ourselves on a “high horse” and tell people that we have got something from God. How easily one is beguiled to do this; as for example, when one thinks that he must “bear testimony,” as it is called in Christian circles—a fruitless and a dangerous procedure. You ought never give testimony about yourself, but about God if you really feel that you are fitted to bear witness. If you are not and are only a prophet of yourself, be not astounded if the open door between you and God has blown shut long before you observed it.
It may be, indeed it not only may be, but it actually happens each day, that we think ourselves in the right against another and all the while forget that God alone has the right to be in the right and that, therefore, we dare not speak and act as if we were in the right. Men should be able to tell, by a certain diffidence in us, that we know that even when we are right we are in the wrong. Only then can God speak to us. If we do not understand this, then at once we are, as it were, in a dark room and no longer know the way out or in.
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