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Life with God ...
Monday, Jan 6, 2020. How does life with God work? Who is God? We need to be careful about what we think about God, what we believe who he is. We need to be careful about our life in general, to build it on solid ground.
Let us talk about the overall framework of our life. Let us talk about this world, as it can be observed and experienced. And let us talk about the biblical promises, the message of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Let us talk about experiences of Christians, and about
Human Life …
Human life is a fascinating story, starting with birth, with being an infant, with growing up. It continues through adolescence, with hitting puberty. But life does not stop with the adventurous parts of our youth. It does not stop with discovering our strengths and talents. At some point, we start a professional education and enter working life. We start to take over responsibility for our enterprise, for projects, goals, institutes and sometimes even whole states. But life does not stop with discovering our strengths and weaknesses.
The time of professional development usually coincides with partnership, with finding a woman or a man. Humans discover that men and women are made for each other, that we need each other, that we are made for one another. Love is one of our hopes and dreams, it is given to our life, deeply rooted into our soul, our desires, our biology and chemistry. But life does not stop with the partnership. It continues and mostly, we found a family. The first kids come, and suddenly the nights start to be full of activity. Young kids are fantastic, a real blessing to each of our days!
Human life does not stop with building a family. Kids grow up, and our work environment, jobs and colleagues develop. Some companies break down, some states get into trouble. Other companies arise and succeed, states change and develop. New technology changes our life all the time, human history has never stood still, there was always change.
But continuing innovation is not the final point of our life either. We grow old, we realize that parts of our body starts to deteriorate and to fail. We experience severe illness and at some point, we become old. We realize that life will end. Often, it is not easy for humans to accept death to come. All our plans need to be given up. We have to let go - it is imposed to us.
The Son …
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1, 14)
(Roland Potthast)
This is part of the trilogy project “Faith of a Scientist”.