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Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018. Can faith be without doubt? What is with the days where you are certain | 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 | about your faith, which are then suddenly followed by big questions, by doubt, by disappointment | ||
- | and emotional turmoil? Is faith without question? Is it without questions? What is your way to | + | 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 | deal with the questions? Is it ignorance? Do you want to bury them somewhere? Or do you want | ||
answers? | answers? | ||
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standards of God's holiness. | 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 ...** | ** 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. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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