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-====== The Bible and Its Reception ... ======
+====== Come to God today ... ======
-Tuesday, Jan 9, 2018.
+Tuesday, Jan 9, 2018. Why not go to God today? Why not ask God today to help him to
+get to know him? Why not go to him and ask him to come into my life? Why not?
+There might be many things either on an intellectual level or on the emotional
+level which can keep us away from God. But we could also be asked: why not overcome
+our obstacles by just asking him to help?
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-** Ideas about the Past ...**
+** Steps to God ...**
+When I think back, I could have gone to God much earlier. I was open for him. I wanted to
+know more about him. But somehow I did not know how. And at some point I started to
+ask him. That was the turning point. After that, I got all what I needed. I got to know
+sincere Christians - many different Christians. I was able to learn to understand the
+bible. Theology suddently made sense to me - and I was able to understand and discern the
+different arguments and schools.
+People often ask: who is responsible for faith. Is it the human who could believe.
+Or is it God alone who chooses those who will believe? The theological debates go back
+to the time of the Reformation, to Calvinism and Lutherism.
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+I believe that the answer is not that simple. You cannot believe yourself. It is God's
+mercy which enables you to believe. But you can ask him. You can approach him. You can
+go and search this mercy. At different levels you are making your decisions!
+Is it you, who can? Or is it again God who is pulling you?
+Can we tell the difference? In any case, you are able, today, to ask him. Try it!
-** Build some Sound Basis for Faith ...**
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+** Come and believe! ...**
+Please, come and believe today! Come, go to God, and give your life into his
+hands. Come today, approach him in a sincere prayer. Tell him, that you long for
+him being in your days. Tell him, that you love him, that you search him, that
+you want him!
+When you tell God, he comes. When you ask him, with a sincerely searching heart,
+there is no doubt that he will be there. He loves each and everyone of us - with
+a deep love. He wants us to be free, but he is searching for justice and purity
+and truth and love at the same time. This is a deep and dangerous thing: to fiddle
+with the living God. He is the Lord, and justice is his core desire!
+Please, give it a try. Come! You will find wide planes. You will find joy beyond
+measure. You will find perspectives which are astonishing. You will find a truth
+beyond all you have known before, love in a light bright and clear, and mercy which
+has the power to save. Come!
 (Roland Potthast)
 [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/topics_collection_ix|... further texts]]
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