Christianity means that change is possible. Deep and fundamental change. It is possible to become compassionate even if you have been indifferent and insensitive. It is possible to stop being overwhelmed by bitterness and anger. It is possible to become a loving person, regardless of your origin.
The Bible assumes that God is the decisive factor in making us what we should be. With wonderful candor, the Bible says, “Keep your wickedness and be compassionate?”(See Ephesians 4. 31, 32). Don’t say, “If you can . . . ?. Yes:?If your parents are nice to you . . . ?. Yes:? If you haven’t been hurt or mistreated . . . ?. She says, “Be compassionate. “
- It’s wonderfully liberating.
- This frees us from the terrible fatalism that says that change is impossible.
- Frees us from the mechanistic visions that make our origins our destiny.
If I were in prison and Jesus came into my cell and said, “Leave this place tonight,” I might be a little dazed, but if I trusted your goodness and power, I’d feel a wave of hope that freedom would be possible. If he’s in charge, he can play.
If it is dark and the storm breaks out with the waves breaking in the dock, and the Lord comes to me and says, “Go tomorrow morning,” there is an explosion of hope in the dark. He’s Dieu. Il knows what he’s doing. Your commandments are not disposable words.
His commandments are always accompanied by a liberating and transformative truth. For example: “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgive one another [which is the commandment], just as God in Christ has forgiven you [is the truth that changes your life]. So be imitators of God, [commandment], as beloved children [truth that transforms life]. And walk in love, [commandment], as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, as an offering and sacrifice to God, [right that life changes]?(Ephesians 4. 32?5. 2).
There is a life-changing power in the truths of this text. Surround them with me as I pray that this power will change it.
We have a new father and a new family, which breaks the fatalistic forces of our ‘family of origin’. Do not call anyone on earth a father; Because only one is your Father, the one from heaven?(Mt 23. 9).
I once heard a young man quote Hebrews 12. 10-11 with tears of deep conviction and great joy because the text assured him that he was not doomed to think of God in terms of his abusive earthly father: “They [our earthly parents] disciplined us for a short time, as they saw best, but God disciplined us for our good, that we may share their holiness; for the time being, each discipline seems more painful than pleasurable, but then produces the peaceful fruit of justice. for those who have trained in it?
They did that, but he does that. It is a life-changing truth, we can know him, believe him, and be transformed by him, no matter what kind of earthly parents we have, God reveals Himself in his word to revolutionize our reflection on his fatherhood. We’re not cursed pensar. de old people, even if our education was flawed.
We are “beloved children”. The commandment to imitate God’s love is not suspended in the air; comes with power: “Be imitators of God as beloved children. “Is it commandment and being loved? It’s power.
Be kind and forgiving, just as God in Christ has forgiven him; what God has done for us becomes the power to change. He forgave us. It opens up a loving relationship and a hopeful future. And doesn’t the goodness of an oppressed heart come because he is loved undeserved and safe forever?The commandment to be kind has more to do with what God has done for you than with what your mother or father has done to you. You’re not a slave to your past.
“Walk in love, as Christ loved us. ” The commandment to walk in love comes with the transformative truth that we are loved. The moment there is an opportunity to love, and a voice says, “You are not a person I love. , “you can say, ” Christ’s love for me makes me a new kind of person. Is your order to love me as safe as possible for me that your promise of love is true to me?
My prayer is that you resist fatalism with all your might, or rather, with all the power of God, change is possible, continue until you are perfect in the coming of Christ.