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God's Power and Human Suffering ...

Monday, Jan 16, 2017. When you listen to the biblical books, you find examples of the overwhelming power of God. He has helped some of the prophets out of life threatening situations. He is king over all rulers and powers of the earth. Then, in other circumstances, we see that faithful people are killed and tortured. We hear from those who did not experience salvation … though it was not out of their fault. They had to suffer the injustice of others.

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Jesus …

We find these two sides of God's power in all biblical books. In particular, when it comes to the New Testament, we experience that his power comes through the spirit first. Jesus, the son of God, who did many wonders, died at the cross. He was given into the hands of the enemy. He had to suffer, and he died!

You might ask: how can God let his son die? How can he let someone die who was completely innocent? Why? We see suffering in so many places. We see it in war and destruction. We see it in illness and catastrophe. We see it in so many parts of our human society - where we suffer from other humans, but where we also suffer from our own twisted condition. The New Testament does not cover this up - on the contrary. it pulls the difficulties into the open light!

The New Testament teaches that the suffering of Jesus is a personal culmination of the suffering of the whole creation. At the cross, this suffering and the death which we see in so many places around us and in us comes to a final point. Then, resurrection comes. A new life comes. A new creation starts. In him, in Jesus.

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Why? …

We still ask our why, we still long for understanding. Young people who come to faith ask this question. Young adults, who want to know how to live in faith, they ask it. They search for his power - and they learn about the spirit, and about his wonders.

God wants to reign in freedom. In his kingdom, we will find his kids, people of his spirit. In his kingdom, we find a freedom full of joy. People come to him by free choice, and they want to change and to be changed, since their heart longs for his full truth, his light, his mercy, his love. Where people do not want this, they get a life without him - and here we are in the middle of creation. Not full of truth, not full of love, not full of mercy.

How much of his power is God showing today? We might need to debate this! Some of us experience strong suffering from illness - and at the same time mercy and help through prayer and fellow Christians. We are between strong joy about God's support even in dark valleys and the cry of pain in some of our conditions. In all of it, we often see his guidance when we look back, we see that he could use even our pain to help us in an unbelievable way. Here, we talk about deep wisdom, for which you need faith and an open eye of your heart! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts

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