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Love by itself is consequence. Love means to be attentive. Love means to care. Love | Love by itself is consequence. Love means to be attentive. Love means to care. Love | ||
- | means that you a full of passion. | + | means that you a full of passion. |
loved one does, what he or she says. Consequences in our life, our actions, our words | loved one does, what he or she says. Consequences in our life, our actions, our words | ||
and behaviour come from our love. | and behaviour come from our love. | ||
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** Consequences ... ** | ** Consequences ... ** | ||
+ | If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples! That is what God told them. | ||
+ | Faithfulness is a core part of love and truth. Love wants to be without end, and it does | ||
+ | not want to be deceived. Love means: I am with you, completely. You can trust me, you | ||
+ | can rely on me. I will not let you down! | ||
+ | You can tell God, you do not want to live with him. This is clearly possible. You get | ||
+ | your years of life, as you know. It can be 40, 60, 80, even up to 100. That is it. After | ||
+ | that there will be a time of judgement. That is what the bible tells us - we might | ||
+ | think it is plausible or might think it is nonsense. The bible also proclaims Christ | ||
+ | Jesus as God's peace and salvation, his path through judgement into a purity of | ||
+ | faith and love and truth. In him, the purity which God is and demands is given to us. | ||
+ | He creates a path we can go! | ||
+ | You can tell God, you want to live with him. You can believe in Jesus - which means | ||
+ | that you step on the path described above. It is a path of personal discipleship. | ||
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+ | But you cannot walk the path without walking the path. You cannot believe without | ||
+ | living with the consequences (as you cannot stay away from God without facing the | ||
+ | consequences). The path of faith means that purity comes into your life! You will | ||
+ | start to change, and continue to change. And it will be a lot of joy to walk this | ||
+ | way, the path of Christ Jesus. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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