{{2009_05_15_t1.jpg}} {{2009_05_15_t2.jpg}} {{2009_05_15_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2009_05_15|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_i|| Topics Collection i ]] ======Future open.====== Friday, May 15, 2009. Our days are strongly influenced by the recent economic developments. Large-scale companies are struggling. Big car companies, who seemed to be the basis of security and prosperity, are breaking down, living only since the state puts billions into saving them from desaster. Our society seems to be shaken on a global scale. {{2009_05_15.jpg }} There is an old short saying: "the future is open". We usually take this rather lightly. The future seems to be so controllable, so well-set, so secure, that we do not really think about an open future. But when times of change come, when times of break-down come, then the openness of the future can scare us strongly. It is a time of those who act, who are able to conduct a community through a crisis, who have an open mind and the ability to sail through the storm. Times of crisis can also bring us back to the important things of life. Of course jobs are important. But there are things more important. We are not defined and bound by our work alone. We are not determined by our success, by our social state. We are not alone what we accomplish! Of course it might be a part of us, we express ourselves by what we do, what we manufacture, what we perform, by our art or our product. But it does not determine our existence, does not control our value. Our value is given to us by the eternal God, by his love, his attention, his purpose. The open future can be an open future of God acting in our life. It can be an open future of him guiding us to a sound attitude of life, which is based on the living God and his saviour Jesus and not on the fragile structures of our world. With him an open future does not scare us any more, but we start to be full of positive expectations what he will provide for us, what he will teach us, what he has to show to us. [R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu] {{ 2009_05_15_2.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_i|... more texts]]