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- | ** Ideas about the Past ...** | + | ** Steps to God ...** |
+ | When I think back, I could have gone to God much earlier. I was open for him. I wanted to | ||
+ | know more about him. But somehow I did not know how. And at some point I started to | ||
+ | ask him. That was the turning point. After that, I got all what I needed. I got to know | ||
+ | sincere Christians - many different Christians. I was able to learn to understand the | ||
+ | bible. Theology suddently made sense to me - and I was able to understand and discern the | ||
+ | different arguments and schools. | ||
+ | People often ask: who is responsible for faith. Is it the human who could believe. | ||
+ | Or is it God alone who chooses those who will believe? The theological debates go back | ||
+ | to the time of the Reformation, | ||
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+ | I believe that the answer is not that simple. You cannot believe yourself. It is God's | ||
+ | mercy which enables you to believe. But you can ask him. You can approach him. You can | ||
+ | go and search this mercy. At different levels you are making your decisions! | ||
+ | Is it you, who can? Or is it again God who is pulling you? | ||
+ | Can we tell the difference? In any case, you are able, today, to ask him. Try it! | ||
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- | ** Build some Sound Basis for Faith ...** | + | ** Come and believe! |
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+ | Please, come and believe today! Come, go to God, and give your life into his | ||
+ | hands. Come today, approach him in a sincere prayer. Tell him, that you long for | ||
+ | him being in your days. Tell him, that you love him, that you search him, that | ||
+ | you want him! | ||
+ | When you tell God, he comes. When you ask him, with a sincerely searching heart, | ||
+ | there is no doubt that he will be there. He loves each and everyone of us - with | ||
+ | a deep love. He wants us to be free, but he is searching for justice and purity | ||
+ | and truth and love at the same time. This is a deep and dangerous thing: to fiddle | ||
+ | with the living God. He is the Lord, and justice is his core desire! | ||
+ | Please, give it a try. Come! You will find wide planes. You will find joy beyond | ||
+ | measure. You will find perspectives which are astonishing. You will find a truth | ||
+ | beyond all you have known before, love in a light bright and clear, and mercy which | ||
+ | has the power to save. Come! | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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