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======It is Christ ...======


Wednesday, Feb 8, 2017. We have a lot of knowledge about technology or nature in
this world. Humans have gained a considerable insight into the processes of the
physical world as well as life itself, the processes which take place in our body.

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**Perspective ...**

Yet, what is the perspective of our life? What is the center, the focal point of
our actions, our hope, our plans? What is it our life is rotating around? What
is driving our heart and our mind?

The New Testament puts Christ Jesus into the center. He has been there in the 
beginning of creation, he was the word which started it all. He was playing with 
the spirit over the waters, when life started to be. The bible proclaims God
in father, son and holy spirit as the source and ultimate goal of creation. 
We are to be part of a community, their community, made for all of creation. 

Let us think about it. What is the center we are rotating around with our own life,
with our thoughts, our emotions, our society? We are invited to discover the
origin and the end. The apostle Paul writes about it in his letter to the 
Korinthians, Chapter 1:

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**Christ in the Center ...**

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30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
 (from 1 Kor 1) 

We are invited to let our life find a center in Christ. He is truth, love, freedom. 
He is the one who came with a humble mind, who showed full faith while dying at the
cross. When we find him, we find freedom. When we find him, we find truth. There
is no greater wisdom than the perspective which comes from Christ Jesus!

It is our act of faith to let go - and discover him. It is our act of faith to find
the peace which only he can give, since he has been the center of creation ever
since. When we find him, we reach our home. Without him, we will stay strangers in 
the night. He is our price, our wealth, our fame, our acknowledgement. What else
could it be!? It is Christ. 
(Roland Potthast)
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