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we know that he is there? What is it that makes us believe? In the New Testament Jesus says to | 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!" | 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!" | ||
- | that mean? | + | 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, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
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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 " | ||
+ | layer of our actions. He does not want us to pretend, but to be! | ||
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+ | Jesus wants to touch our heart. He touches all what we are, the center of our life, our existence, | ||
+ | our trust, our will. | ||
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+ | 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! | ||
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+ | 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) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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