My sisters and my brothers today I would like to
meditate with you about God's love for us. It is very difficult to imagine or
even describe the love of God because as human beings we imagine God and consequently
their actions in human terms. But the way act of God is immeasurable, Or be.
We have no way to measure or determine this. We are finite and limited. How to
imagine the things of God and in this case, the size of his love, the
intensity of his love toward the human being? When we look at the God
creation and I'm creationist.
So I believe
that God created man and we are not a product of chance and much less of the
evolution of nature. We were created by God.
This God who created us made us in his image and similarity.
Had you already stopped to think in
that? However as we look into the book of Genesis chap. 3 we read about that
fall of man, when he left to obey God to give ear to the The man created the similarity
of God was now fallen into sin by disobedience to his creator. The first
attitude of man was not of repentance
and yes of hiding from God whom he had disobeyed. In the biblical account he do
not see any time when this man says he is sorry, but always playing the blame
on someone. The man transfers to his wife and the woman not upload to Serpent
(Devil). Until today has been like that. The man is not liable for their
mistakes before God and all the ways he tries to justify himself. I hear a our
sister once telling an interesting story. She is a psychologist and he likes to
do encouragement with people who seek it with problems. But does this with
servant of God and not only as a professional. One day a man came to her and
after some time she asked him to pray to God. He began by saying: Glorious God
most high, God, etc. Etc She interrupted him and said, brother, pray. He got
serious, cleared his throat and started the same litany. She interrupted again
and asked brother, pray. He blushed and resumed again praising God. The sister
asked him again, for the love of God brother, pray. At this point that man fell
from knees and began to cry out: o Lord my God, has mercy of me! I am a
miserable sinner and am living in grave sin and I've been trying to hide it.
Forgive me, my Lord! That life-changing God moment that poor man who tried to
hide from God praising him. But we're still so. What's worse is that we think
(think) it's okay. But it's not. God knows who we are and know all our
thoughts. He know what we did wrong and
expect us to recognize him and ask forgiveness. Only this. Let's take a look at
the history of the biblical text base of this meditation. The youngest son
leaves his father, spends all the money of the estate with prostitutes and goes
on to live in misery, wishing to eat the food of the pigs that he kept. Only
job he got in those distant lands. In the meantime the young repents.
Acknowledges his guilt and decides to return. Nor has more claim to be treated
as a son. Jesus this is telling us that we must turn humble. But since he left
the father expected to be recalled. The party was all the time prepared. When
the son appears still far the father will meet him and kisses him. And the
moment he starts talking about what they had rehearsed the father sends him put
a ring on his finger (of allegiance) and that he be placed on the boy clothes
new and clean and shoes in his feet.
My dears that
never really happened. It is a story that Jesus makes to speak of the greatness
of the love of God and how he reacts when we are humble and recognize our sins
and ask forgiveness.
But there's a detail
in this story
that often goes unnoticed by us. The eldest son who had never left her father's
House physically and apparently never had had
never missed with the compliance
an order even. This eldest son was in the field when his brother returned.
When it arrives and hears the music and see the dances to a question raised:
what is it? Knowing the story refuses to enter. Invited by the father who
explains about his younger brother, he says: I never I disobeyed your order and serve you all these years. I've
always been here and never gave me a goat to celebrate with my friends. But
your son squandered everything and sent to kill the fatted calf for him. I'm
not going in there. Sisters and brothers would be this young older better than
the younger, the prodigal? Of course not. He was all the time with his father,
but always come back to himself and feeling worth
of blessings. Where was the humility? There was no.
We recognize our State of misery and ask
forgiveness to the Lord with humility and he in his infinite love in forgives
us and restores it in the same place where we were before and where we never
should have left. But let's go back because God is merciful
and his love has no end. So I preached on
Sunday l.l. it is necessary to make disciples loving. Teach loving as I said.
Amen.
Rev. Jesué Francisco da Silva.
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