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 ====== God's Wonder  ... ======
-Monday,  May 18, 2020.
+Monday,  May 18, 2020. I had to think about God's wonder over the past days. The bible is
+full of reports about God's actions, his wonders on many different layers of this creation.
+Let us look into God's power and his wonders as reflected and described by the biblical
+texts. Let us look around as well, and let us try to grasp the beauty and wonder which is
+given to us through this creation as well as by our own existence.
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+** God the Creator ... **
+God is the creator. He has made the universe! It is huge. It is of unbelievable size. It
+does not seem to be infinite - modern physics explores the limits of this universe by
+observing the light and radiation of the stars. Space seems to have emerged from a big
+bang, galaxies and stars have formed, they move away from each other, but the universe
+as a whole seems to be a higher-dimensional structure which has no boundary, but is still
+limited (such as the earths surface as a two-dimensional manifold in a three-dimensional
+space).
+The universe is fantastic. You can go from the very large structures - such as our sun or
+our planet -, to the smalles structures on the nano-scale, to atoms, to protons and neutrons,
+to photons and even smaller particles, whicih seem to be characterized by symmetry and
+transformation groups - abstract mathematical concepts which are deep within matter and
+which determine its structure.
+Somewhere between the very large and the very tiny things there are plants, animals and
+humans. Our life is somewhere there, somewhere in what we could call the middle. And
+here we are with our reason, with our emotions, with plans and goals and hopes and dreams.
+It is just fantastic, creation is of unbelievable beauty and complexity.
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+** and Saviour ... **
+We live in a world governed by physical laws, by chemical laws, by biological laws. It is
+also governed by the decisions of its inhabitants. Humans have built their cultures, their
+towns, their life, in the middle of this creation.
+And the creator is there, he is outside of his creation, and he is in his creation as well.
+He has made all the laws, yet he is the Lord of all, able to do what he wants, any time.
+The bible reports God's interactions which his people since the beginning of mankind. He wants
+to live with humans, with his creation. He wants community. He wants trust, truth and love.
+God is not an abstract entity. He is the personal God. He is the one who is with those
+who search him and want him, who believe in him. In Christ Jesus he became human - a step
+which is puzzling people until today. How can it be? Yet, it is true, and can be seen clearly.
+God has done wonder - on uncountable levels of this creation. He has done wonder in
+the life of many throughtout history. He can be there with his beauty and mercy also today,
+in your life and my life. When we realize just the smallest bit of him, we fall into
+love and into awe. And our reaction? It is what the Old Testament
+song writer wrote about 2800 years ago:
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 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.</color> (Psalm 9, 1)
+What else can I say? I can only joint the choir. I can only look at him and be amazed again
+and again. I can be glad with my heart about his truthfulness, gentleness and mercy.
 (Roland Potthast)