Previously, in this blog, I have written about the impossibility of adequately and fully proclaiming the message of God's grace and the humility that is needed when the Word of God is encountered.
In so many ways, our finitude seems so limiting that we are left to wonder how we can ever hope to say anything about God.
And yet, before that lack of hope turned in to despair, Barth gives us a door to walk through--expectation.
Barth writes: When we have them (Word and faith), we do not regard them as possessions but strain after them, hungering and thirsting, and for that reason blessed. The same is true of the possibility of knowledge of God's Word. When we know it, we expect to know it. The assurance of its affirmation is thus the assurance of its expectation--the expectation which rests on its previous presence, on the aprehended promise, or as we can already say here, on received and believed baptism--but still the expectation. [225]
On one hand we know that we can never fully know. Yet, on the other, we strive with expectation, living in anticipation, hungering and thirsting for that which one day will be made fully known.
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