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-====== Different Life ... ======
+====== Can we say that God is Great? ... ======
-Wednesday, Jan 2, 2019.
+Wednesday, Jan 2, 2019. Can we say that God is great? You might ask yourself - in particular
+when you hear some Christians praise God. At the beginning of a new year, what can we say about
+our perspective, and about the history of the past 12 month with respect to our own life?
+Can you say for yourself: God is great? It will depend on your relationship to God, on your
+insight and understanding of who he is and what he has do to with you, with your life.
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-** Will of God ... **
+** Sing praises to God ... **
+The bible has the basic understanding that God is fantastic. He is wonderful. He is great, much to be
+praised. When is something or someone to be praised? When he or it is truly fantastic. When he, she or
+it is really good. God is to be praised in this sense - he is just wonderful! As an example,
+in Psalm 47 we find the this invitation and demand to praise God:
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+Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! 7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
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+</color> (Psalm 47, 6ff)
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+The bible is full of worship, full of praise when it comes to God. It praises the creator, the father,
+the beginning of all what is. It also praises Christ Jesus, the son. He is called "worthy"
+"to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” (Revelation 5, 12).
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+So why is God to be praised? As humans, we sometimes fear empty praise, we fear a praise that is not
+meant honestly, that just obeys the form, but does not come from a pure heart. And indeed, this fear
+is good to keep in mind. Who needs empty praise? Does God need it? Any human? No, we need praise which
+is based on fact and insight. We need praise which is based on fact and love.
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-** Life in Full ...**
+** So why? ...**
+So why should we praise God? Why is he so fantastic? You need to find out yourself. You need to
+discover this yourself. Only then, you will be able to say from your own heart: "how great is the Lord!"
+So take your time to discover ...
+... discover God as the eternal creator. You can look at creation. Some people walk through the forest.
+Some go into green meadows, the grassland, the stream landscape. Others are scientists, they discover
+the chemistry of things. Some study physics, others mathematics. Our nature obeys deep laws, it can be
+described by differential equations. We can gain insight into genetics, into the structure of our body
+and our mind. It is highly fascinating. And there is a creator.
+... discover God, the one who knows with insight. When you look into the motives and desires of men and
+women. Who knows it all? Who can describe it? Who has insight into it? Read the bible, the Old Testament
+and the New Testament. It describes what man is. And the more your read, the more you understand, the
+deeper and more miraculous is the insight which the bible has. For thousands of years this insight has
+been around, to be read and to be understood.
+... discover God, the one who saves. Men and women can be cruel. We hurt each other. Starvation and pain
+is widely spread. Ignorance, hatred, greed. You know it all. But also there is forgiveness. There is love.
+There is joy. There is truth. There is dedication. And in Jesus God comes into this creation, he comes
+into its pain and cruelty. He dies at the cross, for the sin of the world. Something unbelievable happens
+here at the cross. When we start to understand it, we stand breathless, with a sense of wonder.
+We start to discover why Jesus is called the king of peace, and why the heavens sing "worthy is the lamb".
+We start to understand the praise the bible talks about ...
 (Roland Potthast)
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