{{2015_06_10_t1.jpg}} {{2015_06_10_t2.jpg}} {{2015_06_10_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2015_06_10|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_vii|| Topics Collection vii ]] ======Consequences? ...====== Wednesday, June 10, 2015. When are you willing to draw consequences? What is needed to make you move? Often, we are too convenient to change things. Or we see the risk and danger to move forward, and rather stay where we are. {{2015_06_10.jpg }} **The risk of consequences ...** There is some risk to change things, of course. We all live with patterns of behaviour which have developed over years or even much longer time periods. We all do things in some way. If you look back into history, a lot of innovation has been reached when people changed their behaviour to something more efficient. That needed impact, usually. People do not just change without some force or need to search change. I am currently in a situation where things just cannot stay as they are. I have the need to search change. And I see the dangers. I could end up with a significantly lower salary, without a proper pension scheme, even within a catastrophe. I could end up in a much better state, even with more money, with more freedom. {{ 2015_06_10_2.jpg}} Are we just staring on the risk, when we search change? Are we paralysed by risk, only able to search the most secure place, even if this is by far not the best solution? Freedom in Faith ... I believe that God wants us to believe in him, to trust him. I believe that he wants us to search good solutions, which are good for everyone. Serve the Lord with gladness, and he will care for you. That is what Psalm 100 expresses: 1 A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! 2 Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3 Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100) We are the sheep of his pasture. That does not mean we would not have to work. We are made with will and with hands and a brain - do search good solutions. But we can only succeed when we do this in faith, following him, living with him, and listening to him. When we give thanks to him we see his fantastic world, and all he has already given to us! (RWEP) [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_vii|... more texts]]