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-[[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/jn_de_2017_08_21|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]]
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 ====== In the Middle of our Life II ... ======
-Thursday, August 24, 2017.
+Thursday, August 24, 2017. How do we know that God wants to be in the Middle of our life? How do
+we know that he is there? What is it that makes us believe? In the New Testament Jesus says to
+some of his disciples who had their difficulties to understand his death at the cross: "And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!" (Luke 24) What does
+that mean for us today and for our quest for God?
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-** Salt ...**
+** Too slow to believe ...**
+Jesus refers to our heart, when it comes to faith. The heart is the image of our existence, of all
+what drives us, of our will, our decisions, our trust. Our heart is the center of what is important to
+us. It is the center of what we value, how we see ourselves and others. Our heart is where our
+love and our hatred is located.
+Jesus wants to be in the middle of our life - with everything. When you look into the Sermon on the Mount,
+you see that he touches basically each and every part of our life. It is about relationships, but also
+about our work, our values, our thoughts, our will,
+our posessions, our trouble, our words, our friends, our enemies ... It
+is about our body, our health, or illness, our perspective, our death, ... and about eternity.
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-** Light ...**
+** Our Heart ...**
+God wants us to trust him. We are to trust him with all what we are. That is the most important
+part. It is not just about rules, not just about doing this or that. Of course, it will be relevant
+to what we do. But that is what Jesus does in the Sermon on the Mount. He pulls behaviour from
+rules to "existence". He touches our attitudes, our thoughts, our emotions - not only the external
+layer of our actions. He does not want us to pretend, but to be!
+Jesus wants to touch our heart. He touches all what we are, the center of our life, our existence,
+our trust, our will.
+Christian faith is not just an ethical system. It is, indeed, no system at all. It is the encounter
+with the living God, through his son Christ Jesus. It is much more than mere ethics!
+It is good when we ask ourselves: do we trust him? Where are we? Do we understand? Do we believe in him?
+Do his words reach me, do they reach my heart, my life? If no, we should ask him to come and give
+us more insight, to talk to us, to touch us! We can ask him in prayer. If yes, we should tell him, we
+should trust our life into his hands, explicitly, by telling him that we want him to be the Lord and
+God of our own personal life.
 (Roland Potthast)
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