Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. –Deuteronomy 6:5, NIV
It’s easy to say, “I love God”…But do we really mean it?
0 Comments
I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.–Genesis 9:13-15, NIV When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” –Luke 19:5, NIV 2011, emphasis mine For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. –Romans 8:38 & 39, NIV 2010 Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. (Ecclesiastes 5:10) Once and once again, I face the clock. The clock is ticking backwards, and the pendulum’s swinging again. It doesn’t look to bow in favors; left or right, no front or back. I wish I could control the motion! But the battery’s not there: it’s not where it’s supposed to be. What’s making that stupid clock move, anyway? Has it taken a life of its own? I don’t think so; it looks to be the most plausible answer. But it’s moving, and nothing’s starting it NOR stopping it. I don’t understand how it’s working! I can’t doubt, but it’s no choice: God is behind this. If I feel a final countdown incoming, it is now. (Cue Europe’s song! And those 80’s hard-rock fans, hehe!) Once again, I am amazed at how time passes by. It’s not how I want it, though; once and once again, it’s how God wants it to be. It’s how His mercy works: by unveiling Himself in the most awkward and unexpected of ways. It’s how love goes around: by revealing the truth of our ways, and nursing us back to health. It’s the adventure that we are naturally and humanly ill-fitted to take on: it hurts, it bleeds, it sucks at times. But oh, the end will be glorious! Ah, I have the façade of reluctance, but oh, the joy of hoping for something we can’t see! So I don’t know when will I wipe the dust off my sandals, but that will be soon. We know where we are headed, but not where we will end…like the wind, we seem to be. And like that clock that moves on its own, that is time –God’s time, in the adventure of our lives. The problem hidden inside Oh impío, no aceches la tienda del justo, No saquees su cámara; Porque siete veces cae el justo, y vuelve a levantarse; Mas los impíos caerán en el mal. (Proverbios 24:16) Okay, discúlpenme: ¿quién dijo que Dios no puede explicar cosas por medio de circunstancias (y objetos inanimados)?
Por la madrugada, después de sufrir una situación personal (de la cual tambaleo un montón de veces), el abanico de mi cuarto se cayó. (Mi cuarto tiene un abanico cuadrado, que se cae casi todos los días. Mami o yo lo recogemos, o cualquiera que este en el cuarto, y lo pone en su sitio de nuevo.) Esto me dio a enseñar: Siempre vamos a caer en lo mismo unas cuantas veces. Discúlpenme, pero es verdad. Pero, por la gracia de Dios, podemos volver a levantarnos. Somos humanos. Nada nos quita que no pequemos, pero debemos hacer lo mejor posible para evitarlo. Si te tropiezas en lo mismo, y en lo mismo, y en lo mismo, llama a Dios. El va a cubrir donde tú fallas. “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10, NIV) |
Archives
May 2015
Categories
All
|