{{2016_04_19_t1.jpg}} {{2016_04_19_t2.jpg}} {{2016_04_19_t3.jpg}} [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/de/doku.php/jn_de_2016_04_19|Deutsche Version]] [[Start|| Wiki Start]] [[topics_collection_viii|| Topics Collection viii ]] ======In my Heart ...====== Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Faith is about your and my heart. It is about a free decision. It is about getting to know someone and something wonderful and fascinating, pure and full of light. It is about a personal path, your own personal way. It is about freedom, truth, love, forgiveness, justice. {{2016_04_19.jpg }} **What faith is ...** But in the center of all of this is the Lord: God in father, son and holy spirit. God in the eternal creator and father of all humans, God as the creator, in and through his son Jesus, in and through the holy spirit. The bible only knows faith by free decision. Faith cannot be inherited, it cannot be the faith of your father or mother. If you do not have faith, you are lost. If you did not come to your own decision ... when you are mature enough to be able to decide, you are asked to have faith. Of course, kids are all in, and decisions come later, step by step, for everyone! Faith is a whole world. It refers to getting to know God. It refers to falling in love with him, being astonished and overwhelmed by his holiness, his majesty, his humility and purity, his love and trustworthiness. Faith is the personal reaction to God, when you trust him and know that he is the source and destination of life, the beginning and the end. Faith is about your personal reaction, and not to believe means to cut yourself from the source of goodness and forgiveness. {{ 2016_04_19_2.jpg}} **Good soil ...** Jesus once compares the kingdom of God with a sower. And he describes how this kingdom grows in your heart: 15 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. (Luke 8, 15) It is about your heart. No one can take it away in your heart. They can kill the body. They can blame you, can spill lies on you, as we see it day by day in the public realm. But they cannot take away the humble faith, the trust in the holy father, the trust in Jesus, the son, the lamb of God, his open door of forgiveness and light. Everyone is invited to him, to Jesus: the Christians, the atheists, the Hindu, Buddhists or Muslims. Every single human on the planet is invited to discover the love and truth and forgiveness of the Lord, and believe in his or her heart! Now and forever! (RWEP) [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/doku.php/topics_collection_viii|... more texts]]