04 August 2021

Gerhard and Walther

Prayer is a golden ladder on which we are able to climb up to heaven, and can begin to walk and in a spiritual manner, live in heaven. If we lift up our hearts to God with prayer and walk about Him daily and converse with Him, we will thereby indeed be more and more drawn away from the earthly. We will ever more learn the practices and speech of heaven.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis III:321.

Complete equality would hardly change earth into heaven; rather, it would make the earth a hell. God thus wrote the commandment: “You shall not steal” into the hearts of all people, publicly and solemnly calling it down from fiery Sinai through His elect servant and messenger, Moses.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 623 [Note, this entire selection is remarkably apropos to our current day and the thinking that inequality in wealth is the source of all miseries!]

1 comment:

DrK said...


The RC "preferential option for the poor" is an example of the kind of thinking Walther and Scripture condemn. We are told repeatedly that God shows no partiality, even to the poor. Yet people like Pres. Biden claim that the rich are not paying their "fair share." Clearly to them fairness does not apply to the wealthy, but only to the poor who by circumstance or choice find themselves in a position to claim a bigger share of someone else's "wealth." And what constitutes wealth? I am reminded of H. L. Mencken: the rich are those with more than I have. Narcissus nods.