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Wednesday, Feb 8, 2017. We have a lot of knowledge about technology or nature in this world. Humans have gained a considerable insight into the processes of the physical world as well as life itself, the processes which take place in our body.

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Perspective …

Yet, what is the perspective of our life? What is the center, the focal point of our actions, our hope, our plans? What is it our life is rotating around? What is driving our heart and our mind?

The New Testament puts Christ Jesus into the center. He has been there in the beginning of creation, he was the word which started it all. He was playing with the spirit over the waters, when life started to be. The bible proclaims God in father, son and holy spirit as the source and ultimate goal of creation. We are to be part of a community, their community, made for all of creation.

Let us think about it. What is the center we are rotating around with our own life, with our thoughts, our emotions, our society? We are invited to discover the origin and the end. The apostle Paul writes about it in his letter to the Korinthians, Chapter 1:

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Christ in the Center …

30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” (from 1 Kor 1)

We are invited to let our life find a center in Christ. He is truth, love, freedom. He is the one who came with a humble mind, who showed full faith while dying at the cross. When we find him, we find freedom. When we find him, we find truth. There is no greater wisdom than the perspective which comes from Christ Jesus!

It is our act of faith to let go - and discover him. It is our act of faith to find the peace which only he can give, since he has been the center of creation ever since. When we find him, we reach our home. Without him, we will stay strangers in the night. He is our price, our wealth, our fame, our acknowledgement. What else could it be!? It is Christ. (Roland Potthast) ... more texts