Light4yourway

  So now it's 2025 after christ - in a world where hardly anyone believes in this Christ. How are you, dear God, that no one is interested in your beloved son? Although you really tried everything to conquer our hearts and you weren't even afraid to let him, your lover, die so that we could be close to you. How are you doing these days God, watching us celebrate "Your Christmas" with opulence a few days ago, but in our hearts we didn't understand at all what incredible freedom this Christ child has brought us... because superficiality and... a little sentimentality is enough. Do you have any ideas, God, about how we can get people in Germany excited about the “secret of Christmas” again? So that they realize that it's not about religion for you, but about the most incredible gift imaginable: being on "you" with the Creator of the world and the King of kings! And to sit together, like friends, at a richly laid table, where you smile at us in your k...

Deutsch English Impermanence In the early 1960s, I was often allowed to spend my school holidays with my aunt and grandparents on the farm. That was always a special highlight. I can still remember working together: “Very early in the morning. The dew was still on the meadow, so we mowed the grass in a row of four. ”Ratchet, ratchet, ratchet, and soon the grass strips were mowed. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. Isaiah 40,7 (ESV) The year 2021 has blossomed and is already mowed behind us. Never again will we write in a letter as the sender in 2021. Whether we used the year right or bad. We can no longer turn back time and make up for what we have missed. But we can do something unreconciled to put right. The two pillars In our text we don’t just read about transience. There is also a beautiful picture of consolation. I call these two pillars: The constant and living word of God The Good Shepherd who gentl...