People today are full of same, they are wanting more and more for themselves. There is no better feeling than being filled with God, overflowing with such great and wonderful love.
"He needs to increase and I need to decrease." John 3:30 John the Baptist, man of God, the one who came to announce the arrival of Christ, baptized people by teaching them. He had everything to want all the honors, he was even called a master by his followers. But John the Baptist gave us the greatest example of what the Gospel should be today, he declares: “It is better for him to grow and for me to decrease!”
John was convinced that the center of the gospel is Christ! João did not preach prosperity, did not preach miracles, he did not say that to be happy you need to have a beautiful house, a lot of money in the bank, let alone many bonds, after all he himself gave up all the glory he could have to make it clear that the center was not him!
As I told you last week, the heart mirrors in our faces what is inside each one of us, our faces shine what is full in the heart. There are people who only shine with sadness, resentment, anger, loneliness; why is it in your soul. The eyes are the door to the soul.
We must be light, in which people look at us and see the brightness of Christ in us, as the Bible says in John 8:12 ”… I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness; on the contrary, it will have the light of life. ”. But to be filled with God, we need to empty ourselves. This does not happen from one to the other, but the more we know Jesus, the more we want to be like Him, and the more passionate we become. For example, when you try very delicious food, you eat it until it is full, right? The only difference with God is that the fuller we get, the more overflowing we want to be.
"So therefore, whoever among you does not renounce everything he has cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33
Christ came to bring us freedom, peace and love! This does not mean that we will have no problems on earth, as we have to get used to the fact that being a Christian does not mean being a super hero, but someone dependent on someone who has everything in their hands, and even being the sovereign who governs the universe, looks at us and does not despise us, on the contrary it loves us! The apostle Paul, so recognized and acclaimed, himself constantly declared his dependence on Christ! And saying that the power was not his, but Christ's, testifies to one striking thing: “In everything we are troubled, but not anguished; perplexed, but not discouraged; persecuted, but not forsaken, slaughtered, but not destroyed ”II Cor. 4. 8-9
We continue Sunday comes: More from God and less of me!
