Prophets

“God not only entrusted His elected ones with His mysteries.

He gives them something of His Holiness.

They receive a share of things that none can bear

unless they are being led by God in the spirit of absolute obedience.

They have given up making their own plans.

They are people guided in the light of faith

to proclaim and to initiate movements

that they themselves do not fully comprehend.

No external power,

no striving towards a declared aim,

no acquired knowledge can so change a person

as the Word of God intimately experienced

when the Holy Spirit gives the Triune witness

of what the Father creates and promulgates and,

in the Son sets the Foundations.

Thus the prophet becomes a witness through the Spirit

indwelling within.

The prophets proclaim happenings and realities

that possess inner validity and

truth for today only when viewed from God’s transcendency,

beyond time and its confines.

And the prophet stammers with prophetic voice,

stern and assured,

or what is proclaimed with deeds,

unbending and uncompromising,

the prophet does not fully understand in the last analysis,

because it is and remains a gratuitous gift of God.

Prophets cannot help proclaiming the truth,

even if they struggle against doing so,

because God, Who is guiding,

is greater than their human thoughts,

greater than their human will,

greater even than their own indispensability.

God’s requirements outweigh man’s requirements.

The prophet proclaims as one

who is totally subjected to the power of God.

But, at the same time,

as one elected and privileged

to gaze upon the almighty Father

 

(Adrienne of Speyr).