{{2012_03_08_t1.jpg}} {{2012_03_08_t2.jpg}} {{2012_03_08_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2012_03_08|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_iv|| Topics Collection iv ]] ======A strange world II ...====== Thursday, Mar 8, 2012. Have you ever started to wonder about why and how this world functions? Have you ever tried to understand why things are done as they are done - and why they are not different? We can see our world as a quite strange world, when we start to think about how things should work ... {{2012_03_08.jpg }} **Why? Why? Why? ...** Why are we basically ignorant about lies? Why is it ok to claim a "unique experience" for every stupid department store around the corner who is basically like every other department store? Why is it ok that all the politicians need to claim to improve everything, even if everyone knows that they do not have the power to do it? Why are we so attracted by these illusions? Why are million of people starving? Why are we not doing anything effective about it? Why are we setting up charities to help which do not really help in the long run, but basically support injustice in many states. Why is it so difficult to change the scandals which we have in so many places of this planet? Why is it so difficult to set up systems which serve humans? We have rules everywhere, but the rules are not intelligent, they are dump rules and we follow them .. with all their positive and negative impact. Why is it so difficult for us to set up a system which really helps? Why can't we have a truly balanced distribution of wealth and happyness? Why do we have strange cities without art, without beauty, without motivated people who learn, play and support each other? {{ 2012_03_08_2.jpg}} **Jesus is different!** It is good to ask questions! It is good to feel a strange sense when you are looking at things which seem to be so well-known to you. We get used to our world easily, and then we do not see the scandals any more. Jesus ist different. He has been treating people with a sincerity which is without parallel. He has cared for people, he has fed the 5000, he has died for all, to generate a new game, to distroy guilt, to provide a new beginning! He has not acquired wealth, only the wealth of grace and relationship. He lived from what he was given, but every day he gave more than you could ever acquire! The world of faith is a world full of truth. God is truth and love, there is no shadow in him. Jesus, son of the most high, is like that. In the middle of this world he starte to change all the strange things, into something less strange, into something which really makes sense. That is also strange, indeed! (Roland Potthast) [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_iv|... more texts]]