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 </color> (Psalm 51, 16+17)
+What is it that is important for God? We cannot give him power. We cannot give him any money, or
+riches, or whatever. He is the Lord of the heaven and the earth. He has created everything. What do we
+want to give him? What is it we think we might use to please him?
+But God is the holy God. He is truth. He is love. He is mercy. He is compassion. He is dedication. If
+we can give anything at all to him, we can orient ourselves towards his truth, his love, his mercy,
+his compassion and his dedication. Faith is in the center of Christianity, and faith means exactly that:
+to become truthful about ourselves and everything else. To start to discover what love means. To
+start to discover his mercy and become mercyful ourselves. To be filled by compassion. And to start
+to be full of dedication, to gain the freedom which Jesus showed.
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-**  ...**
+** Peace - Shalom ...**
+God wants us to be full of self-confidence, but in a way where it is fully truthful and based on
+reality. And it is part of reality that without him we are lost. We cannot be as good as he is. We do
+things which we despise ourselves. When you realize your own failures in an honest way, it can break
+your own heart. Too many of us try to hide their failures. We all do it, I do it. But when you look
+into reality, you can become quite sad about yourself.
+David talks about a broken spirit. He talks about his own sin, his own failures. He stands before God,
+he realized how good and loving and truthful God is - and it breaks his heart and spirit to see how
+badly he treated others and God in particular. "Create in me a clean heart!" That is the wish of David.
+It can be our wish as well - an adequate wish when we compare reality with what could be and should
+be.
+God gives healing. He gives a new heart - it has been promised in Christ Jesus, and it becomes reality
+when we come to Jesus in faith. He gives peace for our heart, an unbelievable "shalom". When we come
+to God with a broken heart about our own sin and the state of our soul and life, he is there with
+open arms and healing power. Good news, indeed!
 (Roland Potthast)
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