Section 10
worse his digestive complaint became. He was perplexed. Finally, he gave way to doubt, and his wife began to question too. A few months later, his business came to a standstill. His health steadily deteriorated, and his financial resources stead ily dwindled until both he and his wife reached the verge of despair. In their extremity they ral lied all their unified faith and prayed once again, "O God, You are the living God. We believe that You will yet be gracious to us." But the next day the patient had a further hemorrhage, and nei ther he nor his wife could exercise faith anymore. The living God vanished from their horizon. Friends and neighbors pronounced the brother's case to be hopeless, and the doctor's verdict con firmed theirs.
However, that was not the end of the story. A crisis took place in the inner life of that brother. It began to dawn upon him (although he could not then define it as we are defining it now) that while he knew God as the living God, he did not know Him as the God of resurrection. He knew the doctrine of resurrection, but he did not know the reality of resurrection. He knew in experi ence that God had come into his life, but he did not know in experience that he had come into the life of God. It became clear to him that, from