Georg Katzer: "Aide Memoir"

This is a sound collage which the German government sponsored as a remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the rise of the Third Reich. Instead of making it a chronological telling of the events, Georg Katzer designed it like seven nightmares in which the sleeper is restless.

You don't need to understand German to feel how purely evil the Nazi era was. Listen to this piece, if you dare, here.

No matter how wicked rulers can be, God can make good come out of it. Christianity began spreading under severe persecution but the Lord used it for good purposes. Thanks to the persecution Paul experienced, the gospel infiltrated into the highest levels of the Roman government.

As we read in Philippians 1:12-14 (Bible in Basic English), "Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences; So that it became clear through all the Praetorium, and to all the rest, that I was a prisoner on account of Christ; And most of the brothers in the Lord, taking heart because of my chains, are all the stronger to give the word of God without fear.

This is the reason Paul and other first century saints faced the brunt of Roman and Jewish persecution. We read in 2 Corinthians 4:17 and 18 (BBE), "For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory; While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

If we are punished by governments for worshipping Christ, let's remember Colossians 3:2 and 3 (BBE). "Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth. For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God."

If our beloved Master hasn't returned by Monday, I hope to publish about the impossibility of ending war in this age.