Since\nI am having shoulder surgery tomorrow and will then be \"writing handicapped\".\nI'm going to start working on the foreword. This operation\nis the result of a fall with my bike on the Rigi. In my last sermon\nI mentioned the following biblical passage: \"Before the fall, a man's heart is\nBefore the fall, a man's heart is proud; and before he is honoured, he must be humble\" (Proverbs 18:12 Lut).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Solomon says that it is through falls from pride\nto humility. This becomes wonderfully visible in the example of Joseph. As a\nAs a teenager he was a proud and spoiled \"goof\" with airs and graces. The way\nThe way he talked about his dreams was dripping with pride. Then followed 13\nyears of serious falls full of injustices and humiliations.\nAt 30, his proud dreams became reality. He saved his people from\nfrom certain death by starvation. God honed his character and made him fit for a great calling.\nfor a great calling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With you and me, too, God wants to move something significant in this world.\nin this world. If this does not happen, it is not because\nGod no longer gives us big dreams, but that we close ourselves off to the\nto the falls. Someone once said: Never waste a crisis. Life\noffers us many falls. The question is what we do with them. Do we see it\na chance to grow into a healthy humble person? God wants to\nus from our high horse and use us as suitable tools for the building of his kingdom.\nof his kingdom. When this happens, a life takes on contour and colour.\ncolour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fall on the Rigi is a symbol for me and reminds me,\nthat I also want to see other falls as an opportunity. Never waste a crisis!\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since I will be having shoulder surgery tomorrow and will then be \"writing handicapped\", I am already getting to work on the preface. This operation is the result of a fall with my bike on the Rigi. In my last sermon I mentioned the following biblical passage: \"Before the fall a man's heart is proud; and before...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","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\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}