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======Good and Evil ...======
Thursday, April 21, 2016. What is good? What is evil? These questions go right
into the heart of life, into the heart of philosophy, into the heart of faith,
and into the heart of our daily behavior, our daily judgment, our relationships
and friendships, competitions and struggle. What in our life is good? What is
bad? How about others, their motives and behaviour?
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**Pride ...**
Yesterday we had an intense discussion about good and evil in our multi-lingual
bible study group. Who is good? What about the Role of Jesus? Who in this world
is able to keep all the commandments, to act good in all what he does and wants and
says? Show me that guy, who is doing all well! We all need forgiveness, we all
need what the bible proclaims as salvation: taking away our sins, our lack of
trust and truth and love.
One of our participants, a woman with the gift of wisdom, mentioned pride as one of
the core sins. She talked about the pride to be able to earn your way into heaven,
the pride to do it yourself, to be good, where you are not. What pride is from God?
And why is pride leading us into destruction? There is a lot of human pride in all
of us! The humility of God, however, is of a completely different kind!
We are invited to the living God. When we enter his house, we find love and humility.
We start to learn what goodness really means. He is good, and we are not. Our heart,
each and every heart of humans, is lost as long as it is not filled by his holy
spirit. We all are like sheep without a shepherd, as long as he is not in our life.
We all lack spiritual life, we are all dead without him. Evils is here, in the middle
of our heart, when we follow our desires away from the Lord. Only the desire to
be renewed by him can save us. And then we discover: all is done already in Christ
Jesus. He has already taken care. And there we find unbelievable light and peace!
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**Past and Future ...**
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. (1 John 2, 15-17)
There is a future, and it has already begun. It is his future, his spirit, his
love, which is different from the love of this world. Yet, we are in the middle of
the world, to love one another, to live in his love, to be filled by his spirit and
learn from him. We might fail, many times, but his grace is new every morning!
The spirit of God is just great. When he comes, insight and peace come. He brings
joy, and he brings calmness into our hectic days. The spirit of God comes, and you
realize what your heart is without him - and what is is with him. The spirit brings
a new reality into your life, instantly, and step by step, day by day, on your
path with the Lord.
(RWEP)
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