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Blessed are the poor ...

Monday, June 25, 2012. We voted for the bible passage we like most yesterday. What is the passage you like the best? Which passage is most terrifying? Which one is most interesting? I was taking care of our 10-12 year group of the Sunday school in church. And it was an interesting time - the kids suggested various parts of the biblical books, and then we had an election. Which bible passage do you like most?

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Built on what? …

I voted for the blessings according to Matthew 5. These parts are the ones which I like most. Blessed are the poor …! Blessed are those pure in heart …! Blessed are those who suffer …! God is showing us, that his ways are not our ways, and that there is hope beyond all we experience currently. He shows us that there is a future, full of justice and grace. The meek will win!

What is our life built on? Is it built on success? Is it built on wealth? Is it built on being healthy and well? Or do we find life in the middle of poverty, in the middle of suffering, in the middle of a defeat? Do we find life?

What is our life built on? When we talk about our heart and what it longs for, then goal and basis are different terms for something very similar and related. What is the centre of our life? What is our way, our light, our driving force? What is our faith?

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Built on justice and grace! …

The New Testament invites us to the justice and grace of the holy Lord. It invites us to come to him - poor as we are. It invites us to come to him with our heart, full with many things, and empty at the same time. We are, indeed, poor - with all our possessions, with all our egoism and lies, with our injustice.

But his kingdom is built on justice and grace. When we see how poor we are, we can start to realize that he is there for those who are poor. Blessed are the poor! When we see our injustice, we can start to realize how just he is. Blessed are those who are merciful, since they will receive mercy! Let us open our eyes for grace - full and wonderful grace!

His world is built on grace. It is built on truth. It is built on his mercy, his justice, his life. He is the creator, the creative, the inventor, the one who always has new possibilities for us. His world is there for the poor - it is there for us, Halleluja! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts

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