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Have God as path and reference

Make sure to be on the right path and to pass through the narrow door

03/01/2018

By: Bishop Amaury de Farias

In Matthew 7.13 the Bible tells us there are two paths; two options. There are several ways for you to run your life. The wider door is the easiest one, about own free will. Nothing is simpler than fulfilling your own will. When you see a, anguished person, in conflict, the best way to relieve a person`s problem is removing his or her burden. Let her or him do what she or he wants and so he or she would feel good. That`s the wide door, in other words, you do what you want. Doing what you feel like is one thing, doing what is right is something else. Do what is right; especially when it involves fulfilling the will of God, the Bible itself says that bore the man himself, because, to fulfill the will of God, in 99% of cases, the will of God is exactly the opposite of what you would like to do. When someone beats on our face, our wish is not turning the other cheek; it is to break his or her hand and face of the one who hit. But it's the wrong thing to do. In situations that we have to forgive, overlook, pass, we want to fulfill our wish When we were afflicted between making what we want and the will of God, there is a conflict and our flesh says to do the easiest thing, while the word tells us to do the right thing. Because we listen to the Holy Spirit, we do what we are guided by God and when we do the will of God, we get upset.

If we want to lead us correctly, right, effective, we need to put forth a guideline, a Word, a will and, when we fulfill the will of God, in 99% of cases this implies no longer fulfill our will.

There are so many things we get pleased at doing under the name of God and many things we do because we've been called, almost forced. But we do them for the love of God anyhow. The narrow gate is that one, which is to give up on ourselves in order to do what is right, what comes from God. The fact that I live without conflicts, doing what pleases me, down the easiest path doesn't mean that I will be successful. The easiest path lead to destruction and there are many people who enter through it. But the way that leads to life, Salvation, success, achievement, is small and narrow, and there are few people who get that. Paying for the price is bad, so few people want to pay for the price. You have to forgive who betrayed you, do everything right while a wrong person gets near you is revolting, difficult situations. You need to keep your behavior because it does not depend on others. The end of that behavior will not be good. We weren`t called to look at the lives of others; we were called to look at our lives, to do our job. Your benchmark is not the life of the other one; your reference is the word of God. We don't have to look at who's in front, back, or to the right or left, look at Jesus. You need to understand that God is great and if you compare with the word and with the promise of the Lord, get out of this situation of involvement with other parameters other than the word of God, so that it can work in your life. God could have talked with Abraham without asking him to come out of the middle of his relatives, so that Abraham could be big and be the head not the tail. For the promises to happen, it takes us out of near the references that influence us. So God decides to show His greatness to Abraham away from everybody else. As for all the reference of the daughter of Jairus was death, Jesus said that she slept and continued with Jairus to bless the family. When Jesus approached with Jairus, women were dropping out of sadness for Jairus because the girl died. Jesus put all curious and regretful ones out and then prayed for the daughter of Jairus. That's out of the tent, like Abraham. Among words of defeat and yelling, how would Jesus work on life of Jairus and his daughter? If the problem were with Jesus, it would be solved, but the problem was with us. To work in the life of Jairus, he had to take to Jairus all smallness, defeat, failure and negative word According to the promise of God, we need to be the head and not the tail, says to deliver your life to the Lord, trust Him and everything He will do, that we must love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself. This is our reference of life.