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-======  Truth ... ======
+======  Questions and Re-Discovery ... ======
-Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018.
+Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018. Can faith be without doubt? What is with the days where you are certain
+about your faith, which are then suddenly followed by big questions, by doubt, by disappointment
+and emotional turmoil? Is faith without questions? What is your way to
+deal with the questions? Is it ignorance? Do you want to bury them somewhere? Or do you want
+answers?
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-** Truth of Science ...**
+** Questions! ...**
+All faith needs to go through questions and doubt. All faith is questioned and challenged! This is the
+case for all the disciples of Jesus in the New Testament. They were under pressure. They suffered.
+There were tribulations. They were oppressed. And they found themselves being the biggest problem: with
+their own missing faith, their own doubt, their own character features which did not meet the
+standards of God's holiness.
+Questions can appear when you think about God. Is there a God? Or you fully believe that there is a
+God, but you ask yourself: what does it have to do with you yourself? Does God want to be in any
+type of relationship to you? Or you ask yourself: how to deal with the world around you? The world
+seems to ignore God, even your fellow Christians? Perhaps you suffer from the simplified views which
+the Christians have in your immediate environment?
+The deepest challenges of faith do not come from the outside, but from the inside. They come when
+you do not hope any more, when you do not love any more, when you are just disappointed and have lost
+any sense of God's possibilities. And it can happen, at least temporarily. We all have our moments
+of frustration. The old prophets had it, some of them were running away. Others were trying to
+save themselves with arrogance, even Moses. He had faith, yes, but he lost some insight. It is written
+for all of us as a template, as God's wisdom and help given to us!
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 ** Discover God's Truth ...**
+Each and every challenge to faith, each and every thought of doubt, can also be taken as God's help
+to find a deeper faith, a more sincere love, a better insight into the truth, a more intense fellowship.
+God wants us to discover his truth, step by step. He wants us to mature, to discover his love, his
+deep affection. He does never forget anyone! He never lets down anyone. There are so many things which
+can lead us away from him. There are so many errors we have in our mind and our heart, about God. About
+us. About this world. About the perspectives of life. About what is possible.
+Questions are the invitation to go to God in prayer, to go to him and ask him. Prayer does not need
+a special place, it does not need a particular environment. Ask him, right now and here. Ask him, why
+something happens, why you suffer, what you are supposed to learn from your situation. Ask him, go to
+him, let him explain. Often, this explanation does not come in one second. Sometimes it does! There
+are moments where God answers, just the moment you ask. Things become clear, suddenly. And you realize
+how close he was all the time, and how fantastic he is, how deep his knowledge is, his truth, his
+love.
+Questions are good. We are asked to examine everything, and keep the good things. God has a lot for
+us in store, for every day of our life! We need to bring our questions to him, our doubt, our trouble!
+And then let go in his presence ...
 (Roland Potthast)
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