We live in a "Christian" culture that sometimes differs with what the gospel really should be. We get used to "social clubs" rather than to a Church that lives in the same spirit. We long to be economically prosperous thinking that this is the true blessing and we forget that Jesus said he had nowhere to lay his head ("Jesus said to him," Foxes have dens, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man does not have where to lay down his head. "Matthew 8:20 Reina Valera 1960).
We want to teach others what they have to do when we ourselves are not able to govern our house well, with wives who do not respect them and with children who do not honor them. ("Let him rule his house well, that he may have his children in subjection in all honesty" 1 Timothy 3: 4, Reina Valera 1960)
We want to do everything for God and we do not even take it into account, we have many little phrases to denote the "spiritual", but none of them carries that power of the Spirit of God because we live in sorrow and sometimes we do not even believe in the power of the Holy Spirit and we rely on our own wisdom to defend the indefensible. ("Do not sadden the Holy Spirit of God with the way you live, remember that he identified you as his own, and thus he has guaranteed that they will be saved on the day of redemption." Ephesians 4:30 Translation in Current Language)
We say that we do not have to be hypocrites or Pharisees, but we do nothing to live a life that really pleases God. We think that by saying what we want we mean sincerity when the reality is that the mouth often speaks when you have not even thought about what you are going to talk about. ("In the many words there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is prudent." Proverbs 10:19 King James Version 1960)
We speak of passion for God when our life is more muted than a coal in the middle of an ocean. We speak of fidelity to God when we are not able to be faithful to the people we say we love. We want subjection when we are not able to give ourselves to respect, when our actions scream how bad we live and our preaching screams are more deaf than the sound of a falling feather. ("We have been unfaithful to God, we have not obeyed him, we are violent and treacherous, and we deceive the people." Isaiah 59:13 (Translation in current language))
We have forgotten who we live and what we live for, we think of ourselves before God, we use it many times to defend the ideas that the only ones that benefit are ourselves and not God. We say live for God when in reality we take advantage to live through the name of God. "Do not be deceived; God can not be mocked: for whatever a man sows, that will also reap "Galatians 6: 7 (Reina-Valera 1960)
What happens to us? At what moment did we lose our way? At what moment did we first put our human longings before carrying out the will of God? We live for ourselves and we forget to live for God, we do everything to benefit ours and nothing to benefit God. (Ephesians 5:14)
It is time to wake up, it is time to see ourselves in the mirror and finally be honest with ourselves and realize that we can not live at the expense of our ideas but through the written by God that is only found in the Holy Bible. Let's stop using the Bible to excuse ourselves in our mediocrity and begin to be what God wants us to be: Saints because He is Holy. (1 Peter 1:16)
Let's begin to die to ourselves each day so that God grows in us (John 3:30). Let's really live for God instead of taking advantage of His Name. Let's give an example to people instead of bringing out their mistakes, but above all, let's show the passion for God that we say so much instead of demanding that people have it.
Go back and take the heavy cross that you decided to leave on the road one day and start walking alongside Jesus (Matthew 16:24), feeling and living the true gospel that goes beyond the vain ideas of a world that will end.
You have treasures in heaven and not on earth, live as a celestial and non-earthly citizen (Matthew 6: 19-21), let your actions speak more than your words, but above all put first the spiritual rather than the earthly or carnal.
Let's turn to God!
"» Let's go back to God!
If we do it like this,
he will come to look for us;
it will come like the sun of every day,
Like the first rains
that fall in spring! »"
Hosea 6: 3 (Translation in current lan