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- | Thursday, Feb 8, 2018. | + | Thursday, Feb 8, 2018. Humans have a generic sense of justice. We know, for whatever reason, what we believe |
+ | to be a just decision. Or we have a sense of just relationships. Not all of our ideas about justice are | ||
+ | without inherent contradictions. But it is very interesting to see that we all live with ethics and ideas | ||
+ | of what we should do or how things should be! That includes behaviour, but also attitude. It includes | ||
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- | ** The Lord, your God ...** | + | ** Holy Name ...** |
+ | Our natural understanding of ethis is the basis for understanding holiness. When someone would be | ||
+ | fully just, we would call him holy. Holy originally means something like "out of our world" or " | ||
+ | It reflects the fact that no one is really holy in this world. It is just impossible to be just in all | ||
+ | what we do. There might be many reasons for that ... let us talk about this another day. | ||
+ | Here, we need to look at the biblical message about God, about the creator and ultimate personal | ||
+ | spirit. He is fully just, he is full of love, full of truth, he is all what we would call just. He is, | ||
+ | indeed, holy - that is at the core of the biblical message. It is the background for the second | ||
+ | commandment: | ||
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+ | 7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. | ||
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+ | ** Taking God Serious ...** | ||
+ | There is a simple path to not misusing the name of the Lord. It is to fully take him serious. It is | ||
+ | to get to know him, and then to live up to this knowledge. | ||
+ | But how do you get to know God to do this? Are we not bound to misuse his name, if we use it at all? | ||
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+ | The New Testament paves a path to God, it is Jesus who is the door! When we come to him, when we get | ||
+ | to know him, when we believe in him, we move along this path, we go through the door. Jesus, the son of | ||
+ | God, he is God himself, who became human. He is the lamb of God, the holy one, the messiah, the | ||
+ | annointed one. The holy spirit is living with him and in him. Jesus can be the one to relate to. | ||
+ | He is the one we should believe in. | ||
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+ | When I talk about believing in Jesus, I think of it as a personal relationship. It is you alone, you | ||
+ | with your thoughts, your emotions, your will, your heart, your decisions, who believes. It is a very | ||
+ | intimate and personal thing. Of course, it is also a public matter, since you cannot believe and stay | ||
+ | quiet about it. But the core of faith is in your heart! And with this type of serious faith, you | ||
+ | will start to honor God, his presence and his holiness. You will honor his name and obey the second | ||
+ | commandment. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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