{"id":3557,"date":"2020-03-28T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T08:57:24","slug":"unseren-blick-auf-gott-richten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/2020\/03\/28\/unseren-blick-auf-gott-richten\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing our gaze on God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning (21 March 2020), I read the day's reading. It reads: \"<em>The Lord says: I will give peace in your land, and you will sleep and no one will startle you.<\/em>\" (Exodus 26:6).  In the New Life Bible, the heading above the passage is \"The Blessings for Obedience\". This title inevitably reminded me of our theme for the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He who listens to God and courageously takes steps out of his comfort zone is obedient (Greek: <em>hypakouo<\/em> = listening upwards). Whoever is obedient will be blessed and be a blessing. If we hear God's words and also do them, i.e. listen upwards, we will experience peace, we can sleep without being startled. Sleeping peacefully is a synonym for a good conscience, for peace in the heart and for a trust that all will be well. Especially in the current extraordinary times, a peaceful and deep sleep cannot be taken for granted. When we turn on the TV, read the newspaper or meet someone (if allowed), it is all about one thing: the current pandemic. It can consistently happen that our hearts become burdened and anxious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A change of strategy is needed: we should focus much less on the ongoing propaganda and turn our gaze to God. Listening up begins the circle of blessing, which also includes a peaceful sleep. I think that in the abundance of information, one really has to fight for it. On the other hand, thanks to the stopping of occasions, we have a little more time to turn our ear to God. Isaiah 50:4 says: \"<em>Morning after morning he opens my ear, that I may hear as a disciple hears.<\/em>\" A disciple of Jesus responds to Jesus' invitation to follow him and now sets out to share all of life with him and become like him. It is certainly a good idea that we turn our ears to God in the morning - before all the flood of news overtakes us - and listen upwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us not be overwhelmed by the daily news, let us make space to listen to God. A person who hears the words of Jesus and acts on them is building on solid rock! <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning (21 March 2020), I read the day's reading. It reads: \"The Lord says: I will give peace in your land, and you will sleep and no one will startle you\" (Deuteronomy 26:6). In the New Life Bible, the heading above the passage is \"The Blessings for Obedience\". This title inevitably reminded me of our theme for the year....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","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\/3557","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=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}