Many of us always wonder what were the disciple thinking about, when they totally ignored that Jesus was the one talking to them on the way to EMMAUS. Why they didn´t recognize Him? Why was so hard to see something that for all of us is so obvious? It couldn´t be other than Jesus...
Well, few days ago i was talking with a friend about taking risks and how to recognize when God is asking you to take it. We were saying that God is so obvious and even thata sometimes it's so hard for us to see Him. I think we all agree on this : GOd is so obvious that once we think about all the things that happened in our past we can really see His hands working through it.
But how can we recognize GOD? and How can we really Know Him ? As i walk on this world i see many people trying to please an unpleasant god, a deity that demands imposible things and gives just a litle bit back, they die to do as many things as posible to be well known by that figure they call god that is not quite close to the one i know.
Many times when i walk on this land i ask myself why is so hard for this people to see that God is so obvious and that what he asks from you is not really imposible ? I can´t say i discovered the answer to my question yet, but i'll like to share with you what i have found out lately:
We can´t have comunion if we don´t recognize that Jesus die and arrose to make it happen, I think we are all clear on that point.
To recognize, what a hard word to explain and what an obvious concept it must be in our christian life. For me the word recognize is the anthitesis of another word that many of us read but not quite comprehend: FOOL.
The dictionary describes fool as: a person who is slow to understand. Lack of perception.
On luke 24: 25 Jesus says:" How foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"
And what really calls my attention on that verse are two things:Foolish , wich concept i explained before and Slow of heart...a lazy person witha a moral and emotional wickness.
The disciples walked with Jesus for 3 years and even after they knew the word they never comprehend it. They waste the 3 days of "break" God gave them until Jesus arrise, wondering if the prophecies where true and mourning instead of getting ready for the mistery to be revealed.
Why they didn´t recognized him? I honeslty believe that their problem was the lack of one of this three facts, mots of us ignore:
1: The mind: we need to renew our minds and let Him transform it into HIs by studying the Bible and asking him to help us understand what he's trying to say. To remind our mind means to start thining the way HE thinks and as a consecuence start acting the way he would if He was in our shoes.
The mind is that litle mechanism that tells you to wait until you are ready if that's what God is really asking when your heart syas OBEY. It's also that frame in your brain that make you stumble when you read the word: and everything will be added...
The one that cuts our vision because what we pursue is appareantly un reachable and in fact stupid. But the mind is the one who stop working when some of us decide to leave all our will at the mercy of the second point :
2: Emotions: what a tinny and at the same time deep fact is this that can affect our entire comunion with the Lord if dont really give it to HIm.And how fool we are when we are waitting for the Lord to talk when we can feel His presence!! We totally forget that HIS merely presence is the bigget prove of HIS love. But to be on His presence is necesary to spend time with him , more than a simple sunday or a bible study.
I like to think that to let my rel. with God grow i must do a litle bit of what i do when i am interested on making a new friend. When you start talking to that person you spend most of the time thinking what should you say or not, wondering if he/she will think you are stupid if u ask this and practicaly quiet because you don´t really know what he/ she likes. But on that process od spending time together you get to see new things that might help you to establish a deeper conversation and not a MONOLOGUE ( as many of use are used to) like the fact that she doesn´t repeat the same pair of earrings during the week or that his favorite food in the world is the ice cream. Your merely presence and the pereseverance of being there as much time as you can shows to the other person how much you care. And it's the same with God.
We will never recognize HIM if we don´t even KNOW him!! so in order to know him we must : 1. Read the scriptures and 2. Spend more time on His presence.
But the last one is the one that i like the most and it includes a deeper thing than my mind and emotions, it talks about my soul . The soul is the most preocious treasure and the one most of us never take care of. My soul the instrument i use to believe and the uderserved gift i got when i decided to accept JESUS.
So we can´t really recognized GOd if our strength is only one of these areas. GOd wants ALL of me : MY mind, my emotions and my soul. There's not such thing as a Trinity if there are not 3 deities. GOD; JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT.
There's not recognition of GOD if all we have is a strong mind or controlled emotions but a wick soul. We will never realize is Jesus who's talking to us if instead of getting ready for what HE is about to reveal we sit in our rooms and mourn and wonder what if...
This update cloncludes on this " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your sould and with all your mind and with all your strength" But to love is also a descition to make so if u want to recognize him you gotta love HIm first and if u wanna love him you must start taking descitions that will lead you to that goal.
Well, few days ago i was talking with a friend about taking risks and how to recognize when God is asking you to take it. We were saying that God is so obvious and even thata sometimes it's so hard for us to see Him. I think we all agree on this : GOd is so obvious that once we think about all the things that happened in our past we can really see His hands working through it.
But how can we recognize GOD? and How can we really Know Him ? As i walk on this world i see many people trying to please an unpleasant god, a deity that demands imposible things and gives just a litle bit back, they die to do as many things as posible to be well known by that figure they call god that is not quite close to the one i know.
Many times when i walk on this land i ask myself why is so hard for this people to see that God is so obvious and that what he asks from you is not really imposible ? I can´t say i discovered the answer to my question yet, but i'll like to share with you what i have found out lately:
We can´t have comunion if we don´t recognize that Jesus die and arrose to make it happen, I think we are all clear on that point.
To recognize, what a hard word to explain and what an obvious concept it must be in our christian life. For me the word recognize is the anthitesis of another word that many of us read but not quite comprehend: FOOL.
The dictionary describes fool as: a person who is slow to understand. Lack of perception.
On luke 24: 25 Jesus says:" How foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"
And what really calls my attention on that verse are two things:Foolish , wich concept i explained before and Slow of heart...a lazy person witha a moral and emotional wickness.
The disciples walked with Jesus for 3 years and even after they knew the word they never comprehend it. They waste the 3 days of "break" God gave them until Jesus arrise, wondering if the prophecies where true and mourning instead of getting ready for the mistery to be revealed.
Why they didn´t recognized him? I honeslty believe that their problem was the lack of one of this three facts, mots of us ignore:
1: The mind: we need to renew our minds and let Him transform it into HIs by studying the Bible and asking him to help us understand what he's trying to say. To remind our mind means to start thining the way HE thinks and as a consecuence start acting the way he would if He was in our shoes.
The mind is that litle mechanism that tells you to wait until you are ready if that's what God is really asking when your heart syas OBEY. It's also that frame in your brain that make you stumble when you read the word: and everything will be added...
The one that cuts our vision because what we pursue is appareantly un reachable and in fact stupid. But the mind is the one who stop working when some of us decide to leave all our will at the mercy of the second point :
2: Emotions: what a tinny and at the same time deep fact is this that can affect our entire comunion with the Lord if dont really give it to HIm.And how fool we are when we are waitting for the Lord to talk when we can feel His presence!! We totally forget that HIS merely presence is the bigget prove of HIS love. But to be on His presence is necesary to spend time with him , more than a simple sunday or a bible study.
I like to think that to let my rel. with God grow i must do a litle bit of what i do when i am interested on making a new friend. When you start talking to that person you spend most of the time thinking what should you say or not, wondering if he/she will think you are stupid if u ask this and practicaly quiet because you don´t really know what he/ she likes. But on that process od spending time together you get to see new things that might help you to establish a deeper conversation and not a MONOLOGUE ( as many of use are used to) like the fact that she doesn´t repeat the same pair of earrings during the week or that his favorite food in the world is the ice cream. Your merely presence and the pereseverance of being there as much time as you can shows to the other person how much you care. And it's the same with God.
We will never recognize HIM if we don´t even KNOW him!! so in order to know him we must : 1. Read the scriptures and 2. Spend more time on His presence.
But the last one is the one that i like the most and it includes a deeper thing than my mind and emotions, it talks about my soul . The soul is the most preocious treasure and the one most of us never take care of. My soul the instrument i use to believe and the uderserved gift i got when i decided to accept JESUS.
So we can´t really recognized GOd if our strength is only one of these areas. GOd wants ALL of me : MY mind, my emotions and my soul. There's not such thing as a Trinity if there are not 3 deities. GOD; JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT.
There's not recognition of GOD if all we have is a strong mind or controlled emotions but a wick soul. We will never realize is Jesus who's talking to us if instead of getting ready for what HE is about to reveal we sit in our rooms and mourn and wonder what if...
This update cloncludes on this " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your sould and with all your mind and with all your strength" But to love is also a descition to make so if u want to recognize him you gotta love HIm first and if u wanna love him you must start taking descitions that will lead you to that goal.
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