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-======  Understand Faith ... ======
+======  Discover Faith ... ======
-Tuesday, March 27, 2018.
+Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Do we understand faith? Do we know what faith is about? How do we learn
+what it means?
+Many people do not know what the faith of Jesus is about. So often we are satisfied with a small
+percentage of insight, though we search for meaning of our life at the same time. But there is more
+with faith. There is much to discover! There is much to see, to understand ...
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-** Time ...**
+** The Lord ...**
+Have a look at the following sentence about faith, written many thousand years ago in the Psalms, but yet
+very much alive today. It can be a key to my own understanding of faith, to my own access into
+a world beyond:
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+What is it about? It is about the Lord. It is about his love, which is there forever. It has been from
+the beginning of time. It is above time, but also in time. He is there, in my time. He is there, in
+my life! God is not an idea. He is not a rule. He is a living being, the eternal living creator! He is
+the one who is there ...
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+** The Lord is Good ...**
+When we talk about faith, we talk about getting to know the eternal God. We talk about getting
+to know him in a way which is beyond some story, though it might happen through stories, through words,
+through others and my own questions. God is there, in my life. He wants to talk to me. He wants me
+to get to know him, to talk to him. He wants a real conversation - yet one which is not like other
+conversations at the same time.
+Clearly, God is not accessible for me like other people. He is spirit. He has all the power, but he
+has decided that he wants faith, and faith is not based on physical interaction, but on something much
+deeper. Faithfulness, love, truth, purity ... all that is a description of the character of God. It
+is what you can experience when you start to get to know him.
+So how do you start to get to know God? There are various things you might start with. Why do you not
+ask him to come into your life? You can pray, just talk to him. And then find Christians to look into
+the biblical books together with them. Let them explain their understanding, and develop your own insight.
+God has chosen to talk to you through the biblical books, they are full of his spirit, of his truth,
+of his wisdom. Every time I take a fresh breath from this book, with understanding, I am excited and
+feel like in a new day, just made for you and for me!
 (Roland Potthast)
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