Tells a story what happened to Paco, an 8-year-old boy. One day, after class, he went mad at his house. His father, upon seeing him enter, called him to speak. Before his father spoke something, Paco said irritably: "Dad, I'm very angry and angry with Joaquín."
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His father, a simple but wise man, listened to his son while he continued with his claim. «Joaquin humiliated me in front of my friends. I'd like something bad to happen to him! "The father heard everything quietly as he walked looking for a bag of coal. He took the bag to the patio and said to Paco: "Son, I want to make a proposal to you. Imagine that that white shirt that is hanging is your friend Joaquin and that each piece of coal is a bad thought that you send him. I want you to throw that coal in your shirt, in a little while I come back to see how it was ». The boy thought it was a fun game, the shirt was hanging far away and few pieces hit the target. At last, the father asked him: »Son, how are you now?»
Paco replied: "I'm tired, but happy because I hit a lot of pieces of coal in my shirt." The father looked at his son, who did not understand the reason for that game and said: "come, I want you to see something".
The son went to the room and looked at himself in a large mirror. He was scared, he did not recognize himself, he could only see his teeth and eyes, he was all black and dirty. His father, then, said to him: «You saw that the shirt almost did not get dirty, but look at yourself. The bad things we want others are like what happened to you. Even if we managed to annoy someone, we were more stained. Every bad thing we do, a rudeness, a lie, an insult, a revenge, even if it makes us feel better, our soul has become stained and we are not better. "
To overcome with the good the evils have a speedy wisdom; blessing another makes you wise. Precious stones do not bring you wisdom, but wisdom brings you precious stones. The fool says: "you can not", the sage says: "who could?", Is always willing to learn.
The offspring of Christ, is not a political kingdom, he came to change our heart so that we live the principles of heaven, and to achieve it we have to do three things:
Feed the good
Why does evil win good? because sometimes we lie, and sometimes we tell the truth, that's why evil crushes us, lies are perfected; because when evil grows, good weakens; We must feed ourselves with the Word of God. Adam and Eve knew good, not evil, but they knew it theoretically. That was God's plan for us to experience the good things, and for the bad to not experience it. Intelligent people do not need to experience evil, because they feed the good, they know it theoretically because the Word of God has taught it to them. When I nourish the truth, I have power to bless.
The enemy will try to weaken you so that you abandon your dream, so that what you say hurts you; so that you leave in half what you have started, so that your faith does not work for you, so that you live with silly religious rites. It will try to weaken you so that you have a negative self-image.
And we are all weak. But there is good news! GOD promised to make us strong, because the Bible says: "Say the weak strong I am"; God is going to raise a generation of people who recognize their weakness, but who will feed them with the Lord's forces and the result will be that this weakness will not dominate you, but the Lord's forces will dominate you.
Feed the order
If we compare Genesis 1 with Genesis 3 we see that in chapter 1 God created and ordered everything, whereas in chapter 3 the human being messed up and brought a curse to all the good that God had created. Many times we "mess up", but God always orders our lives.
The first three days God ordered and the other three days he filled. "When you order, I will fill you with blessing." Order your food, meet the schedules, order your sex life, because when the disorder comes satan reigns. Debts have to be paid, do not spend too much. I command and God fills it with victory, multiplication and blessing.
Feed the Christ that is inside of me
One of the characteristics of emotional and spiritual health is balance. Jesus said "love your neighbor as yourself" if only I love myself, I become selfish, narcissistic and lonely. And if I just love others, I become an affective anemic and end up worn and resentful. That is why it does not say: "love your neighbor more than yourself" or "in place of" or "less than", but, "like" yourself. Love is both, me and the others, is a balance.
There are bad things that we can overcome with good, others with order and others, only Christ can overcome them! They are diabolical evils installed, that are strong inside you. Feeding Christ is not going to hurt you, what they said or did not tell you, with the Word, the prayer, the praise he will bring extraordinary miracles.
Excellent @mildreduh, we should not pay bad for evil on the contrary we must let the fruits of the spirit vivify and show that we are God's workmanship and that we do not live according to the fruits of the flesh, because we live by the spirit
Thanks for sharing.
the spirit must be nourished with the things of the spirit, the word of God is the best food for us to be more like Christ.