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Lichtstrahl 75 - His words were hidden from them, they did not understand

27/2/2022

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GOSPEL:  Luke 18 (18-34)            
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Dear friends!

It is now only two more Sundays, and then we will already be entering Passion Time on the 20th of March.  The colours at the altar will change to black and there will be a great heaviness about the Act of Consecration for four weeks. And this year we are going to have a priest ordination at a black altar…. Are we prepared for that?  And do we realize, why that needs to be?  Why that heaviness needs to be?  Every year? And that we are definitely  not asked to passively join in the passion of the Christ Jesus, but to actively engage in it and walk as a companion at His side towards Easter and eternal life?

Nobody would ever think, that when searching for eternal life, one could find it while living on the earth.  It surely is connected to life after death.  When somebody dies and at funerals we frequently do hear about eternal life after death, but we struggle to understand, what that means and how that is going to be.  

In our days words spoken about eternal life are less and less filled with understanding and trust.  Especially if our earthly life is actually one of richness and fullfillment in comparison to many other peoples’ lives.  And so it scares us, if we hear words of the Christ Jesus as in today’s gospel:  “  It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God” (where we will find eternal life…) It is not meant to scare us, it is not meant to be a warning to get rid of all our earthly posessions and share them.  It is actually just telling the truth:  that we will have to let go of everything earthly we posess now, if we die.  The more we posess, the more difficult that will be.

We spend a lot of time in our congregation to look at and understand resurrection and eternal life. Death, and losing everything,  is not the end, but a necessary stepping stone to resurrection and development.  Without the cross there would not have been a resurrection.      

Could we enter into Passion time with the consciousness  that it is of extreme importance, it has to be felt and experienced,  sothat we can reach Easter.  Could we say:  “I want to walk consciously through those four weeks out of my own free choice.  The darkness I am passing through is a valley that has been walked by the Christ himself.  He knew beforehand that that would have to be.  He tried desperately to keep his diciples at his side by preparing them for what had to come. Knowing them at his side, loyal, strong, and as true friends would have helped.    

They did however not understand His words, they were hidden from them, they left him alone.  That does not need to go on forever.  We could try out of our own free will to be real companions, to be willing to walk that path through the valley of death with the Christ Jesus. We were given  much time to understand that and thus learn to become true followers of the Christ.  We still have three weeks to go to think about this and to prepare how we personnaly could make our following Him a conscious and selfless reality.

Christine Voigts 
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    Lichtstrahlen

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    Lichstrahl 110 - The Whole Of The Earth Will Be Shaken
    Lichtsterahl 107 - Siehe Ich Schaffe Alles Neu
    Lichtstrahl 109 - Dass Ihr Kraft Findest Möget Zu Stehen Vor Dem Menschen-Sohne
    Lichtstrahl 116 - Was Euch Zusteht Das Sollt Ihr Haben
    Lichtstrahl 45 - Nikodemus
    Lichtstrahl 50 - Der Tod Johannes Der Täufers
    Lichtstrahl 51 - Moments Of Truth
    Lichtstrahl 52 - The Lost Son
    Lichtstrahl 53 - Die Aussendung Der Jünger
    Lichtstrahl 54 - Die Heilung Des Blinden Vor Jericho
    Lichtstrahl 55 - Heilung Eines Taubstummen
    Lichtstrahl 56 - Lämmer Unter Den Wölfen
    Lichtstrahl 57 - Das Reich Gottest Ist Eurem Innern
    Lichtstrahl 58 - Do Not Be Anxious
    Lichtstrahl 59 - Die Königliche Hochzeit
    Lichtstrahl 60 - The Armour Of God
    Lichtstrahl 61 - Die Kosmische Frau Und Der Kampf Im Himmel
    Lichtstrahl 62 Reformation
    Lichtstrahl 63 - The New Jerusalem
    Lichtstrahl 64 - Gemeinsamkeit Der Lebenden Und Der Verstorbenen
    Lichtstrahl 65 Erwartung
    Lichtstrahl 66 - Die Verkündigung
    Lichtstrahl 67 - Becoming
    Lichtstrahl 68 - Liebet Einander
    Lichtstrahl 69 - Der Zwölfjährige Im Tempel
    Lichtstrahl 70 - Buds And Blossoms And Seeds
    Lichtstrahl 71 - Der Gaben Der Könige
    Lichtstrahl 72 - Sie Steigen Auf Das Dach
    Lichtstrahl 73 - Seeds
    Lichtstrahl 74 - Die Gerechtigkeit Gottes
    Lichtstrahl 75 - His Words Were Hidden From Them
    Lichtstrahl 76 - Die Versuchung
    Lichtstrahl 77 - The Transfiguration
    Lichtstrahl 78 - Das Zeichen Des Jona
    LICHTSTRAHL 79 - Ich Bin Das Licht In Der Welt
    Lichtstrahl 80 - Einzug In Jerusalem
    Lichtstrahl 81 - The Chalice And The Cross
    Lichtstrahl 82 - Be Not Rigid In Your Heart
    Lichtstrahl 83 - Ich Bin Der Gute Hirte
    Lichtstrahl 97 - Aussendung Der Siebzig Jünger

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