"There is only one power that frees us from ourselves, and takes us all afraid, like all self-despair. It's called love.
We already know in our human community life, if ever by the beam of divine love met, was something of the life and works of love. And many white ashamed and grateful that he is not what he made of himself, but what he encounters, he donated made love of him. This mysterious power of true love lies in the fact that she sees the people encountered and understood and not as who he is here and now, rather than the one that he may be said to be like, as the future. This makes a human being glad and give him confidence when he feels that the other him as the future takes, that look through the other can by anything external, everything everyday, petty, all Unvollkommen-half that each attached: that the others on him familiar. And give a person confidence, meaning yes, believe in its future. Such confidence is the one to know, happy and free. Thus love
gives future, gives love at the same time faith in the future. But all our love is but a pale reflection of the love of God, "there" moveth sun and stars. How weak and broken, our power to give and to awaken love! But that is the Christian message that God's love has appeared in Jesus Christ. Here she steps out of the shadows and is proclaimed in word and deed all that long in fear and anguish for freedom. will not be, as the one we are to where we have made ourselves, but as the one we are not, we will want to be - God's love that takes us. And this makes the divine love of all that we are a sham and gives us for what we are not our true, real existence. God's love is not a goal to which we struggle - who could win it! - It is the power that surrounds us has always been, for us to open one's eyes, and we are the eyes on the one in which they appeared and has become a reality in the world, Jesus Christ. know oneself carried by this love means to be free of the past, to be free of yourself, free for the future, wants to give to God, for the glory which shall be revealed in us. "
excerpt from a sermon that Rudolf Bultmann on July 2, 1938 held on Romans 8.18-27 has (Marburger sermons, Tübingen 1956, p. 68-69)
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