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-Sunday, March 18, 2018.
+Sunday, March 18, 2018. Currently, we have a new government in Germany, and the topic of religion
+has been in the media over the past days. The point is the role of Muslim immigrants.
+It is very interesting: in the political debate those who seem to be most atheistic when it comes
+to christianity seem to be the most fierce defenders of Muslims when it comes to immigration and
+integration. Those who strongly oppose the catholic church when it comes to rules have no problem
+with Sharia preached in so many mosques in democratic countries. But ...
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+** Knowledge about God? ...**
+But let us look at this topic in a slightly broader framework: what do we know about God?
+What is our idea of God? How do we deal with the topic? My understanding is that the deepest problem
+here is our missing knowledge of the world religions, about all of them, Judeism, Christianity
+and Islam. We might know something, but we do not fully understand. So we need to ask: what
+do we know about God, do we understand God?
+Let us have a look into the biblical book of proverbs, chapter 8. Here, wisdom is speaking. Wisdom
+is calling. Wisdom wants to teach. Listen first, it says:
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+** Wisdom is calling ...**
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+Wisdom is calling you and me. It is there. It wants us to search it. It is very interesting, indeed. The
+biblical books clearly believe that wisdom is talking, all the time. It is calling. It can be heard. It is
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+even loudly on the roads. And it calls me to listen. It calls me to wait. It calls me to come daily.
+Every day, wisdom wants to be with me.
+There is a fantastic promise of wisdom. It promises life to us, and favor from the Lord. Wisdom is linked
+to God (= the Lord). But it also gives a warning: who fails to find wisdom, will be hurt strongly. It is even
+an active act: you hurt yourself when you do not find wisdom. Is it active? Can it be an active act not
+to find something? Yes, if you close your eyes, if you keep your ears from listening! These verses tell
+us that it is us who do not want to listen, the voice of wisdom is there, loudly. The voice of God can
+be heard.
+I would have to say much on this topic. I have been searching to hear this voice for quite a while. But
+then I found it. I started to hear. And I started to listen. I found this life, God talking to us. There is
+a lot more to say. But first of all: we need to open our eyes, the eyes of our heart. Wisdom is there
+already talking to us. You can find, if you start to search!
 (Roland Potthast)
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