Faith in the Union

Faith in the Union

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, Son, be of good cheer, you are forgiven your sins. Matthew 9: 2 What others believe can be attributed to me, the efforts of those men in favor of his friend. Faith is not unilateral, others shall and may be involved in my dramas. The joint effort of those men was the channel through which faith walked.

  The faith of those men gave the possibility that his friend was healed. These men liked and identified with the paralytic, and they took him to get him to Jesus. We can say that faith is manifested in the set of attitudes of a group of men of faith. Take the bed was their effort of faith. Faith that time was an action effort. The reverse can also happen ... if your "friends" do not believe you will do nothing for you, then, faith is not manifest. Whatever the reason God needs people with faith in each other in order to manifest his power. Love was the binder of those men and faith up that bed.

"By multiplying the sin the love of many shall wax cold" ... the disintegrating element of societies is envy. A society frustrated with the individualistic efforts falls in the repetition of petty acts, that is envy. Matthew 9: 3-5 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, blasphemies. But Jesus, knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For what is easier? Say, are forgiven your sins; or to say, Arise, and walk?

If we look at the emotional transfundo those other men, we see people harboring evil thoughts. Evil thoughts (petty, selfish, individualistic) prevent you cheer on the other.

As depended on scribes that man would never be cured, because they were mean. Faith today does not achieve greater victories because small men are undermining the power of faith. On the one hand men were cheering for healing that paralytic the other had the counter class. These did not win! I believe we should take great care of our attitude towards the effort of some to further the faith. When she bump a critical attitude and harmful ... opens the eye that you are on the side of the petty and those never offer their hands in favor of others. Idle hands, but with sharp tongues!

The real lie

The real lie

Sincerity ... to tell the truth I have to lie ... because that is true! The truth of all truths is that dynamic need for disguise, hide, mask the existential void through a self fiction engendered in order to say that still exist! How could I resist the fact that I am a pale and imperfect shadow of dreams and ideas? So this compulsion to say that I am what I am really not ... Deep down for some this may be convinced, but the fact is that truths are transformed to satisfy something that would be for something I'm not ... nothing! ... but how compulsive the fact that I do not see and do not admit ... I !!!!

The arrogance of silence

The arrogance of silence

Sometimes I hear people saying it's better to be silent than talk nonsense. Silence is golden. The silence makes intelligent fool. It is these and many other phrases that actually reveal another tragedy of personal communication, arrogance. Behind this there is a silence be saying it's better than the other because not spoken or expressed such barbarity. This is the arrogance of silence ... I'm better than him because I do not speak so much nonsense! Perhaps the individual can be a loudmouth, but he has the sincerity and sensitivity to expose who he is and not hide his arrogance behind the silence.

In Eden, after sin, God spoke .... He sought the man to talk to him. In human arrogance could say: why it came to know of the condition of the two? God is not silent! On the death of Abel asked his brother Cain, where is your brother? In the arrogance of silence he says, and I have to do with him?

In conversation with Abram says he will be the father of many nations, but in human arrogance sarai says in the silence of your heart that this is not possible in the years that both have. The silence is arrogant because as much as it does not say anything in the background someone has a better conclusion than the other. It is much arrogance !!

God could be silent when your child was baptized, but he chose to praise him saying how I delight in that child! Could have stayed silent, as many parents do when their children are in trouble but it besides listen sent friends to help him. There was silence on the part of God in the words and attitudes!

The only god of silence was to the death. Not bear to see his son in the agony of death, but the nature expressed the "pain" of God through lightning, thunder and earthquake ... It was God showing his grief!

God says, "Come, let us reflect together!" is. 1:18 his proposal is that even if you speak foolish things come and show their reasons. Put your logic and let us see if you're right. Come to expose yourself and do not be arrogant in silence saying it in the background that you are better than me. Speak! Communicate! Expose yourself! Skip the arrogance of silence. God seeks at all times to communicate with everyone no matter in the rhetoric of the speech. God wants his children to have the sensitivity to listen with humility the folly of my neighbor. It is difficult, but Paulo says: we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15: 1

When we speak and express open the recesses of the heart to put ourselves in society and analysis of critical situation. Expose yourself absurd as it is leads the individual to be heard and this, leads to a reflection of their ideas and concepts. Silence can reveal this cruel conviction of arrogance.

"though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow;. although they are red like crimson, as wool will become Isaiah 1:18

  The transformation that often require and want is the direct result of exposure!

Criticizes the Nicodemos

Criticizes the Nicodemos

Nicodemus presents to Jesus as someone who reperenta a group of important people. I could understand this criticism in two ways: actually I am part of a group of important people or hide myself under a curtain of important people not to reveal my deepest feelings.

In my opinion both can be real and jesus take any of the alternatives to help Nicodemus out of this crossroads. The question is that to get out of this vicious circle and reinvent a virtuous circle he urgently needs an open mind. To get it you need to enter into a state of self-criticism, self-reflection in order that their self-image is corrected through the Christ of parameters and not the "crowd" which he claims to be representative.

The phrase of Jesus for this pretentious (pretension is a psychic hideout of a low self-esteem) honorable elite man was, in truth, I say to you man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. John 3: 3

The purpose of Jesus was that Nicodemus see the kingdom of God, but this would only be possible through the new birth. Both nicodemos as for us today "new birth" is symbolic of a new being in Christ Jesus as a Christian axiom, but Jesus wanted to open a better comprehension which means this new state of Christian life. To see what he wanted to show needed to be born again.

To be born again nicodemos see.

  Nicodemus possessed in reality a conflict of transfundo generations in their search for evidence in jesus. A man who could not find flavor in the concepts of life of previous generations, but had not had the oportudinade to see a new reality for their search for meaning in life. The proposal of Jesus is dying to see! Accept? To die need to see what has to be dead. It's like a surgery ... not out removing the cancer without delimiting it through studies. Nicodemus needed to see that their sense of dissatisfaction was a reflection of an empty religion that over time and that their parents gave them. Was cashes with continuity without sigficado. The proposed jesus was to get this man opened the possibility of criticizing yourself from jesus vision.

   the master wanted this man entered a self-reflection process. Wanted his self-criticism was creation factor of personality, individuality, separation of realities, ownership of your life and end of his re-elabolaração of life. The criticism is not the continuity. Do not criticize yourself is to keep the bankrupt bases and corroded of being. To loosen up the continuity I need to see me ... From the space of self-reflection. Criticism generates self-invention.

  expressions as vocêc is very critical ... Rejoice pq who says this is hiding this meaning: I am not able to re-invertarme. Be quiet 'cause I am powerless to it! A posture without reflection is likely to be seen fused and confused on the banks of the dynamic realities and be a frustrated castaway of continuity.

  Christianity root and not the Contemporary predicts this collapse to enter the second stage of Jesus, "in truth, I say to you man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God" John 3.: 5

In enocntro with Nicodemus Jesus opens the significasos and continues in further discussions, but to enter this kingdom must be born of water and spirit. What kind of water wanted to be saying? He answers in a next meeting!

Love is like giving

Love is like giving

Love is giving

Peter says - not gold or silver, but what I have I give you - get up and walk.

I am often questioned on the street by people asking for a quick solution to your problem - money - or perhaps to a worse situation - your hunger, disease - and I know many have even bigger problems - lack of which have to live, sleep - I'm embarrassed not to have often resources to solve many social gaps.

Peter breaks the barrier of money offering something much bigger than a single currency. Maybe she would address the beggar problem for a few hours, but he would soon return asking for.

He says he does not have what the man was asking, but was willing to give. Peter had a willingness to give. Peter liked to give.

Love is like to take.

Simple ask? Not too complicated. Why give hurts and for some people the conviction pain 'and even higher. `give and desperately painful because in your mind to have a sense of loss. Give this means leaving something and this something, do not own more. So give cause intense psychic pain! Dar has a mutilatório ingredient. Not having what went makes you feel mutilated. Someone in this condition really is sick! The name of this condition or `selfishness and pathology.

Do not give what you have, much less what does not. Not of a smile ... a good day ... a nod ... kiss ... hug ... caring ... the compulsion to have 'is so strong that human outlines disappear. Tears the simplest ways to express existence. Dar has a mutilating character so I can not look out without being afraid of giving.

All this is based the unreal character of things. And everything can be very dangerous in delirium condition hallucination. Why deliramos while on the meaning of giving is because we distort our existential reality, but when we cross the destructive behavior can be hallucinatory character. When we come to steal what we do not have the urge to get at all costs we have not crossed the line of insanity.

I believe that the society in which we operate crossed that line, and many of the problems we experience is just because we are dealing with insane people. The social inequality, cruelty in health services, violence at all levels is part of a company that created the reality imagined having. The "have" become an end in itself. The increment with exhibitionism, vanity, vanity, caprice, luxury, extravagance, waste all shaken with arrogância- this package increases all other situations. The worst of all is violence that is generated by those who "have" and will win at all costs the same pleasures of having. Ai one wonders but there is an obsession / compulsion behind it all! A crest society that mimics the secular there is no room for love. It is that time reflect / think about what society we want to be part of.

Want to go back to Peter ...

The experience it this time 'and absolute reflection of jesus character. It is the essence of God! For God so loved the world that He gave ... To give I need to look out for myself. I need to understand the external realities of people and things. See what they are needing makes composing my action plan is to give. The opportunities to give will be bumping our door every moment, from the simplest to the most complex and we should be prepared to give.

Love is like giving

We understand the love God for the conduct that it has to give. Suffocate the god of love in us when we leave the conduct of giving. Sponsorship of our behavior is the recognition of what God does in me. The same attention to realize that God holds me will be that I look outside - my equal.

It would be rhetorical ask God what should I do to love. The life of Jesus is the last trump card that God does for humans to understand how God loves. The life of Jesus is the paradigm of condutual like to love. The compass - north - the map - for love 'and undoubtedly the bible in jesus voice.

The question is how to translate a mountain of letters through stories in assertive behavior. A behavior that expresses the ideals of God in Jesus. In the end I be like Jesus? Here we arrive at the decisive point. "fe"

Fe is not a feeling 'and a person - jesus person.

The bad theology keeps people in a state of natural convenience. Good theology destroys faith in the concepts that the world believes and builds citizens to heaven.