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 ====== Show us the Father ... ======
-Monday, June 18, 2018.
+Tuesday, June 19, 2018. What is human? We start our life as babies, we start it being infants
+who need to be nurtured and protected by a father and a mother. These two humans play the
+central role in human life. Only step by step we grow into mature beings.
+The bible takes up this important relationship at the beginning of human life. God is
+called the father - and he also calls himself the mother - of all humans. He is called
+your heavenly father! What does it mean?
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 ** Human Desire ...**
+Humans are created by God, the eternal father. Our human relationships, father and mother,
+are built in his image. He created this relationship. He designed us to be infants at the
+beginning of our life. He built his eternal fatherhood and motherhood into our life. He
+did it in a very concrete way, in a fantastic way!
+Also, God built into our heart the desire for himself, for an eternal father and an
+eternal mother. He built the desire to have someone who cares, who is interested in our
+life, who wants to know, who wants to be there, who wants us to prosper, who loves us
+deeply! This desire is reflected in the words which Philip finds in a discussion
+with Jesus, see John 14:
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+Philip articulates this basic human desire. He is in a discussion with Jesus. He also indicates
+that knowing the eternal father is the main point for a human life. It is where you find peace.
+It is the point where you reach your goal. We are all created to live with him, with the
+eternal God and father!
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 ** Heavenly Father ...**
+Sometimes people analyse religion and they interpret the human desire for a heavenly
+father as a projection of their elementary experiences when they were infants. And indeed,
+this relationship is very important and there is a lot you can compare. But the atheistic
+logic comes to the wrong conclusions since they do not know God, the eternal father. Our
+human fatherhood and motherhood is the projection, coming from the eternal God, the
+creator, the beginning and the end!
+The good news: there is a heavenly father! God is there. And more good news: God loves
+us as a true father and mother would do. He is interested in our life, in your life and
+my life. He wants to live with us. He wants to go with us. He wants us to prosper, to
+discover a fantastic world, to be free and full of love ourselves.
+The New Testament is called good news. In the heart of this good news is the fatherhood
+of the eternal God, the motherhood of the creator. In Christ Jesus he rebuilds the
+bridges which humans have torn down, he confirms his care and his justice at the same
+time. We are invited to discover this heavenly father ... what a story!
 (Roland Potthast)
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