Searching for the Center of Humanity ...

Mo, Dec 28, 2015. Where do you find the center of humanity? Where do you find the center of yourself? Perhaps you feel like you have found that center already? Where did you find it? Where is this center, where you find peace with yourself and with everything around you? Where is the middle of your existence? How do you call it? What is it like?

How do you call it? …

Is it some activity? Is it leisure? Is it sports? Is it rest, or meditation, or silence? Is it with other people? Is it community, or partnership, or friendship? Is it family or comradeship? Where do you find your center?

Perhaps you have some idea or vision of this center, but you could not find it yet. You could not come to the point where you said: here is it. I have found! You are still searching. Or you are still unsatisfied with what you found. It is not as you hoped to find. It is not as you hoped to experience. You are still full of unrest, full of drive to go somewhere else.

What can this be: “the center”? What is it that brings our soul to peace? What is it that brings us to a resting place, to a state where our life has found itself and has found source and destination? Let us listen to a conversation which is exactly about this point, about the center. In the following discussion it is about the heavenly father, and Thomas is searching for him, discussing his search with Jesus.

Meeting the eternal Father …

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.4 From now on you do know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. (John 14, 5-11)

When you search your center, you should try out Jesus. Here, he claims to be “the way, the truth and the life”. He claims to be one with the heavenly father. How can that be? What is its background? The story reaches back deeply into Jewish tradition and the Old Testament scriptures. You find far reaching texts about God's relationship to mankind.

With Jesus you will experience peace. This peace comes into your life when you offer him the first place, when you offer him to be the eternal God and father - as he tells Philip in the story above. Here, with the father, all other things fall into place. Without him, other things take over and become your center - but they will not let you find peace! Come to him, to Jesus, he is the only true center! (RWEP) ... more texts