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We need his guidance ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014. When you walk around in a town which you do not know - how well do you find your way? There are people who are very good in finding their way. Others, though, need someone to help them - they need a guide!
A guide for our life? …
I sometimes think that it is the same when it comes to life. Some of us intuitively seem to go into the right direction. But there are others, who need a guide. When it comes to life, I even think that we all need this guide. We all are unclear about the full map of our life - we only see little pieces and do not understand their full significance!
What can guide our life? Usually we have general ideas of how things work. We have some dreames and hopes of how we want to live. And we follow our professional and personal goals. This can also be difficult: what education to choose? How good are we personally to succeed? How to deal with resistance, with the power play of others in our environment.
We need guidance to shape our general ideas. We need guidance to shape our hopes and dreams. And we need very concrete guidance in the day to day questions of life. How can all that work?
Bible and Prayer …
The bible gives us the general guidance. It provides a compass for our ethics, and it gives us dreams and hopes, a vision of how life can be and should be for humans. It is a great and fantastic vision - and the ethics of Jesus are breathtaking and adventurous, and a step-by-step guide at the same time. And then, the bible also promises the concrete help for us by the holy spirit. Let us read about this:
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. (John 16, 12-15)
I believe that God wants to be with us on the day-to-day basis. He wants to teach us and talk to us through his holy spirit. This will not change the great lines of thought as they are given by the bible! But it will help us today and tomorrow, to shape our emotions, our mind and words, and all what we do! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts