? Then I’d like you to know what fight I’m fighting for you, [?] To have all the richness of the strong conviction of understanding, to fully understand the mystery of God, Christ, in which all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. . ?
Colosssenses 2. 1-3
A conversation about what you can’t imagine
Sheep, my friend, for some time I’ve been thinking about how to tell you the things that concern me, but I don’t know exactly how to be clear and not be rude.
Recently, someone told me that he had seen a film and that he had been impressed, in this case, not impressed, so unimpressed that his dream was lost in the thoughts tormented by the images captured in the film.
What do you feed your mind for?
What kind of information do you give your brain to create thoughts?
Our minds create images when we receive information, whether it is read, heard, or viewed. When, for example, you hear the word home, your mind converts that sign (into text) into meaning and produces an image. When you read a text, your mind produces in your mind an image of what you read.
Images are printed [1] in our minds and help us memorize the information we receive. Images are able to convey sensations that send us emotions that intensify impressions on us.
Hours in front of computer screens, television, mobile phones produce images that are introduced into our minds and “Welcome to unreal life!”
The world intoxicated us with unreal and misleading images, and we let ourselves be sailed in these dirty waters, or worse than sailing, we are submerged in the depths of stagnant waters.
Do not be under the unequal yoke of the unbelievers; because what society can be between justice and wickedness, or what communion, light and darkness?What harmony between Christ and the evil one, or what union between the believer and the disbeliever?What is the relationship between God’s sanctuary and idols?For we are the sanctuary of the living God, as he himself said, I will live and walk among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people; therefore, do you turn away from them, turn away, said the Lord?(2Co 6. 14-17a)
Sheep watch secular soap operas, terrible schools, which teach all sorts of shames of the world of darkness, allowing their minds to absorb betrayals, embezzlement, crimes, immoralities of all kinds. There is also the series of the undead, vampires, who present different types of involvement between the living and the dead, fictional beings with human beings (created in the image and likeness of God), not to mention other series that show only evil in us, inducing children’s minds to such despair that they can commit suicide.
Help me!
? And to you too, who was once an outsider and an enemy in understanding your evil deeds, but now he has reconciled you in the body of his flesh, by his death, to present you before him holy, irrepressible and unspotted. (Cl 1. 21-22)
When you read the word heaven, what image forms in your mind?Is this image a size?Do you have a color?Are there clouds in the sky that you imagined,, is it night or day in your sky?Does this image make you feel sensations or emotions, does it have a specific smell?Where do the emotions you feel take you?
Reading allows you to train your mind to imagine [2], meditate and reflect, however, we don’t have time to read or hear a good story because we use most of our time to see ready-made images, we tickle our minds, and our minds remain in the mud of profane images, created to deviate from the truth.
Realizing that when we receive prefabricated images, we become lazy and lazy, and stop learning and training our minds to form images of our worldview, with our own resources that we accumulate in our life story.
Therefore, brethren, I pray you for God’s mercy to present your body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your rational worship. And do not conform to this century, but transform yoursose by renewing your mind, so that you can experience what is the good, pleasant and perfect will of God Romans 12: 1-2
Sheep, you who were saved (remember? We were saved. ) By the precious blood of Jesus Christ; Where did you submerge your mind?I’m sorry about the objectivity, but if you spent more time in front of them?Screens? of what has been immersed in the book of life, you will have a hard time living a pious life. it is difficult to follow the progressive race of sanctification [3]. You don’t keep your lamp full of oil, and I need to remind you that Jesus is coming and that you won’t want to be out of this party, sheep, you won’t even want to be outside!
Therefore, if you have risen with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ lives, sitting at the right hand of God. Think of the things above, not the things here on earth; because you are dead and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ? (Cl 3. 1-3)
Dear sheep, my fear is that our minds will have so many tattoos printed throughout the world that there is no time or space to print in our minds and hearts the perfect law of the Lord that comes through our understanding [4]. It is obvious that if you stay 4 hours a day immersed in the tangle of social networks, you will have to stay at least another 4 hours immersed in the Word of God, washing the dirt that is thrown into your brain so that your mind can be renewed.
Now, having received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him, built up and confirmed in faith, as instructed, growing in thanksgiving; make sure that no one interferes with your philosophy and your vain subtleties, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world and not according to Christ. ? (Cl 2. 6-8)
The enemy of our souls uses all this evil feeling to disturb our hearts and to suppress us in depressions and other kinds of mental follies.
Wake up, sheep! We are the living letter that will often be the only reading that will read a disbeliever. We are the printed letter of Jesus that those outside the Kingdom will be able to read!we know who the Lord we serve is. Ambassadors of Christ, let us honor the name that is our flag.
“You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men, already manifested as a letter from Christ, produced by our ministry, written not in ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone boards. , but on tables of flesh, that is, in hearts (2Co 3. 2-3).
“Renew yoursose in the spirit of your intelligence, and see yourself of the new man, created according to God, with the righteousness and righteousness of truth (Ephesians 4. 23-24).
Read the Word, meditate on it, share what you have learned from this sheep that God has put at your side, listen to the Word, delight in the Lord, let Christ be the center of your life, we will spend more time with the Lord, form our minds in the spirit of Christ. We will use our precious time to stand before the throne of the Almighty. But if you have trouble protecting yourself from temptations, don’t give up, ask for help; God does not despise the contrite and dejected heart. [5]
Leave no room for your mind to secularize, suffocate, and disintegrate in the manner of that time.
“The word of Christ remains rich in you; Edit and counsel us wisely, praising God with spiritual psalms, hymns, and chants with gratitude in his heart. And whatever you do, whether by word or action, do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, thanking God the Father. ?(Cl 3. 16-17)
Go ahead, sheep!
Odd
[1] Print the verb: 1. mark or be marked (sign, figure, etc. ) on something, by pressure. Do you print the initials with the stamp ?; 2. Graphic transfer of words and/ or images contained in typographical forms, clichés, engravings, etc. , marked (on paper or on another surface), with or without ink, by pressure exerted by a suitable machine. ?
[2] Verb imagine: 1. form a mental image of (something that is not present); Think: “imagine romantic situations”; 2. discover, create (something abstract); design, invent. ” Imagine a conspiracy”; 3. Have an idea of (something, someone or yourself); (upwards) “I can’t imagine a scene like that”; 4. Design an idea (about something, someone or yourself); judge (), assume (), presume (). Have you imagined things differently?; 5. think insistently; Think, consider. Did you wonder what he had done?
[3] Luke 13:23-24 And someone asked him, Lord, are few saved?He said unto them, Try to enter through the narrow door, for I say unto them that many shall seek to enter, and they will not be able to. To.
[5] Isaiah 57. 15 For thus said the High, the Sublime, who dwells in eternity, who has the name of Holy: I live in the high and holy place, but I also live with the contrite and dejected spirit, to animate the spirit. sacrifice and invigorate the hearts of the contrites.
By: Renata Gandolfo. © Return to the Gospel. Website: voltemosaoevangelho. com. Translated with permission. Source: Woman, what diet did you follow?© Faithful Department. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br All rights are reserved.