Advent, actually adventus Domini\n(coming of the Lord), refers to the time of year in which Christians prepare\nthe feast of the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas. Recently I noticed\nthat the word Advent, with the three letters u-r-e added, means adventure.\nGerman, Abenteuer. This is a very meaningful play on words. The\ntheme for 2018 was \"Abent\u00fc\u00fcr Geb\u00e4t\". Prayer then becomes an adventure,\nwhen we let Jesus arrive in our hearts and encounter him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Has prayer already become an adventure for you\nHas prayer become an adventure for you or is it more of a chore? We cannot\nthis encounter with our Creator, but we can provoke it by being fully there.\nbeing there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: \"No one possesses God in such a way that he no longer\nwould no longer have to wait for him completely. And yet: no one can wait for God who does not\nwho does not know that God has been waiting for him for a long time.<\/em>\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bonhoeffer expresses with this that\nwe all need to wait for God. At the same time, however, we must always\nremember that God has been waiting for us for a long time. He is always first. Our\nwaiting for God is wrapped up in God's waiting for us. This God is\nmore than we are when he can meet us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But - \"no goat licks away\",\nthat we should wait for him completely. This is also what it says in Jeremiah 29:13f: \"If you seek me, you will find me;\nyes, if you earnestly, with all your heart, desire me, I will let you find me.\nlet me be found by you<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Life with Jesus becomes an adventure\nadventure when the message of this verse becomes personal experience. This\nclash of \"longing for God with all my heart\" with \"I will let you find me\" is highly explosive and incredibly exciting.\nI will let you find me\" is highly explosive and incredibly exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new year is upon us. It is a great concern to me that our services inspire us to earnestly seek this God. I am happy if you experience many valuable encounters with the waiting God. Then we will have a really good year with lots of Advent.ure<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreword from the seetal chile Poscht 01\/2019<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Advent, actually adventus Domini (coming of the Lord), refers to the season in which Christianity prepares for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas. I recently noticed that the word Advent, with the three letters u-r-e added, means adventure in German. This is a very meaningful play on words. The theme for 2018 was \"Abent\u00fc\u00fcr Geb\u00e4t\". The...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-herzschlag"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}