JESUS AND OUR TRAPS 3/16
“Let us beset the just one because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law.”
How often do we find ourselves acting that way, perhaps unconsciously! Whenever we hear the Word of God and feel a correction coming our way, we immediately think: “God is so good and loves me just as I am; He loves me, so I don’t really need to change. Those who really need to change are the others, those who steal, or who are unfaithful. I’m doing just fine.”
Another obstacle: “I am that way because I have sufffered so much in this life; other people have made me the way I am; circumstances have conspired to make me this way, and I do not feel God is close to me. He’s helped others, but not me.”
Those are obstacles that we place in Jesus’ way in our lives. In the end, those obstacles end up holding us down, unable to advance towards the life that Jesus, God’s own Son, came to bring us. He came to give his LIFE in order to free us from traps of sin, from our complexes and our justifications – and also from our pride.
Let us strive, therefore, for the reward that comes from living a blameless life.
--Silvia Sanchez
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JESUS Y LAS TRAMPAS 3/16
“Tendamos una trampa al justo porque nos molesta y se opone a lo que hacemos nos echa en cara nuestras violaciones a la ley.”
Cuantas veces nosotros hemos actuado asi, tal vez inconscientemente cuando escuchando la palabra de Dios sentimos una corrección y pensamos de inmediato: “Dios es muy bueno y me quiere así como yo soy; me quiere, así que no tengo que cambiar. Que cambie los que roban, los infieles; yo no; yo estoy bien.”
Otra trampa:”Es que yo soy asi, porque en la vida he sufrido mucho; la gente me ha hecho asi, las circunstancias me han hecho asi, y no siento que Dios está cerca de mí; a los demás los ayuda pero a mí, no.”
Esas son trampas que le ponemos a Jesús en nuestras vidas. Esas trampas, al final, nos aprisionan a nosotros mismos y no nos dejan avanzar a la vida que Jesús, el hijo de Dios, vino a traernos. Vino y dio su VIDA para que fuéramos libres de toda trampa del pecado, de nuestros complejos, malas justificaciones, y también de la soberbia.
Luchemos, pues, por la recompensa de llevar una vida intachable.
--Silvia Sanchez