Lenten 2015: INVITATION for rehearsal JOEL 2.12

The play we show, the music we play, the dance we present, the performance we act has the title: "CHRISTIAN-LIFE-STYLE".
We know already, at least since Paulus etc... we live in God and God lives in us.
This is not a dream, according to Paulus: it's a fact. You like it or not - it's a reality.
This fact is celebrated in the Cath. Church, for everyone in the Baptism etc...
For our rehearsal I like to mention only 2 points given us by the profet Joel:
1.) The Invitation is NOT: try to be in God, the invitation is: TURN TO GOD !
Maybe we are seen like bees: flying from bloom to bloom, enjoying life... and have
forgotten the basic and the air and the wind and the challenge... Into this LIFE-
SITUATION, into this life-experiences we are called, invited: turn to God. And the
invitation says: again + again + again (Joel 2.12) "Turn to God" means: think about God, speak to God and about God, act like God (as shown by Jesus). This special God-thinking, God-speaking, God-acting needs time and space and courage and is different from other thinking, speaking, acting - because
the focus of our attention is now God. This is the invitation: take time, space
and strength to connect with "God" (it's a matter of consciousness).
To accept this invitation is your decision.
2.) Like in the time of Joel also today it's not clear, which kind of God may get your attention. Today - if you speak about God - you have to explain, which kind of God you think about.  Joel is a help on the way. May we accept his proposal?
Or do you like an other God? Joel recommends us: if you have God in mind connect
it with tenderness (1) and with compassion (2). [If you have the experience of
"fallen in love" you may know what is meant by "tenderness and compassion"] If you
have God in mind, connect it with "slow - to anger" (3); rich - in grace" (4); "ready -
to relent" (5). For the construction of your God-Image net these 5 factors together - and you have already a high level and nearly modern God-picture (but not yet the
God-picture Jesus brought us).
The "GOD-TURN" or turning to God is an old invitation. But since ca. 4000 years
this "turning" includes the question: to which kind of God. And this question has not yet reached the normal baptised person of 2015. Therefore the Invitation for Lenten-time 2015 is urgent: purify your God-IMAGE. We got it as a gift from
our parents, from the Church etc...but now as adult person of today we have to discover which kind of God we praise and we have to examine our God-picture;
eventually to purify it - it's an exercise of high priority for our future. Your CHRISTIAN-LIFE-STYLE depends an your IMAGE of GOD. If you have reached
"Joel" - yu are already good - once you will reach the IMAGE of GOD of Jesus...