"MARRIAGE"

We would like to ask you for an advice because we are getting married!
If you already decided to get married what do you need the advice for?
Oh! Because we are not really sure everything is going to be right,
that is why!
Well I think nobody is really sure of that, but, the most important think is: Do you love each other?
Very much! But.. ..
But what?
That is what we are trying to find out!
Hey! What is the matter with you? Are you trying to make me crazy?
If you two are not really sure what you want, how am I going to be able
to help you?
If we were sure, we wouldn’t be asking for counseling!
Don’t you think so?
Yes! It is true! I’m sorry!
I ‘m going to explain you something, and God please, help me!
Men are just one half of a “machine” women are the other half!
Both were made different, think different act different!
For both, certain things have greater priorities than others, however, the
most important for women are not always the most important for men.
And of course, it will be an error to try to make the women priorities
the same ones for men, do you understand?
No! Not very well!
All right! I am going to explain it in another way:
We should not force them to be like us!
Or let them make us to think like them! Because we both are different!
We both were made for different purposes!
And to change it is not healthy! It is not recommended for the couple,
because this won’t help anyone!
And what if this happens,
Well, it happens that no one is happy!
It begins and unbalanced situation! One person dominating the other!
For their own defeat! Of course!
Yes! Now we understood! Thank you!
Let me give you an example:
Take for instance a Duet, a couple of persons singing at the same time,
One person sings in a tone and the other in a lower or a higher one,
and sounds very nice, because they harmonize and make it a pleasant
sound for the ones that are listening, but if they both sing in the same
tone, without harmony it sounds horrible!
A marriage without harmony does not function right and both suffer!
One should respect the tone of the other person and not grab both,
because when this happens, he or she will be neither of the two!
Something else:
Men and women, we both have bad habits, and if we thing we could
correct them after we get married we are in a big error, if we could
not correct them before, after marriage it is practically impossible!
This is also a mistake!
We should accept each other as we are and not as we should be!
and not try to change each other repeating every day the same thing!
Probably with love, they change by themselves!
Oh God! When are you going to change him, or her, and God answers:
After you change!
Because it is very easy to see the errors in other people but very hard
to see our own errors and bad habits!
We should not get married to be happy!
But to make happy our couple!
The Bible says that when we get married we stop to be two people
And begin to be ONE! Genesis 2-24.
I becomes we, mine becomes ours!
When I persist, marriage won’t resist! It breaks apart!
When a couple is united in one, there is nothing impossible!
The two halves together assemble into a powerful machine!
But if one try to dominate the other, the machine stops working!
We should not get married just for not to be lonesome,
Or just for sex, or for beauty or only to form a family, we should
get married before anything else, to make our couple happy!
Everything else comes by itself!
If you think you could be able to do this trough the years to come,
GO AHEAD DO IT!
Otherwise, the sweet dream of marriage results in a horrible
nightmare, that culminates into a divorce.
Just for an error!
Error? What error?
The error of thinking that the duty to make happy belongs to the
“other” person, and both seat down to wait, and never shows up!
It is the duty of both! If one fails, both suffer!
There is more pleasure in giving that in receiving, said Jesus,
And that means: Happiness comes to us, not when we restrain it,
but when we give it away!
Oh! I was forgetting something:
Respect is a very important issue! Everything bad starts when we
stop respecting our couple!
I hope I have helped you!
Oh yes! We are going to be very happy! Because, I am going to buy
everything for her, and she is going to buy everything for me!
That is not right!
Material things won’t buy happiness! Happiness come trough little
things, nice words, kindness, a little token of love!
Flowers, your favorite dish, something that makes your heart happy!
A golden cage won’t make the bird happy!
Yes! You are right!
Marriage is a couple united with a string, and this string should be used
to help each other to ascend the highest mountains of life and not to try
to hang up each other with it!
I think that when this happens, the best should be to cut the rope,
to avoid a tragedy!
Material things don’t change the feelings of people!
The only thing that can change the feelings of the whole world:
Is LOVE!

HAPPINESS IS TO GIVE!
IT IS TO LOVE!
MY BEST WISHES TO BOTH
AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!

Jose Salazar
S. de C.
Check Spanish version @: sopadepescadoparaelpecador.blogspot.com

"THE BIBLE LIKE A CAKE"

The Bible is God’s Book!
He inspired it to be written and read by his sons, and then, little by little they could be able to know their Father: The Supreme Creator!
However, for one or another reason, people don’t read it, they just put it
away on top of the closet’s shelve where it gathers dust!

One day I was passing by a christian church, and I saw a sign which says:
DUSTY BIBLE CROOKED WAYS!
How true is that! Because the Bible teaches us right ways!

If the Bible were a Cake, the only way to know its taste, and sweetness is:
Eating it! The same thing happens with the Bible, the only way to know it’s
treasures and sweetness is by reading it!

I don’t have my Bible dusty, said a man, I clean it every week!
Me neither said another man, because I don’t have one!
Well, I think it is time to buy us one! Or start dusting it out and begin
to read it everyday to start tasting it’s flavor!

This way we will begin straightening out our road to God!

Nobody buys a cake and make it an altar and sanctify himself, every time
He passes close to it, (To sanctify is to make the sign of the cross)
But he buys it, admire it, smell it, cut a slice of it, eat it, and invite others to sweeten their mouths with it!
It should be the same with the Bible, instead of just sanctify us with it,
We should open it up, read it, share with others our lectures, sweeten
with this, our souls, our hearts, our minds and of course: our spirit!

We will never be able to know all treasures and blessings God has prepare
for us, if we do not decide once and for all, to “eat”such a delicious “Cake”

God is always ready to be with you, every time you want to read his Book!
And help you to understand what you are reading!

Knowledge is our duty as human beings!
The desire to know our God it’s a pleasure!
GOD BLESS YOU!

Jose Salazar
S. de C. For a Spanish version Please check:
sopadepescadoparaelpecador.blogspot.com

"THREE GREAT LADIES"

HOPE: Is a “dove” who wants to fly south
when winter weather is coming.

CHARITY: Strong wings to reach out destiny!

FAITH: Is to believe she came back,
and spring already started!

FAITH Is liberty! It is life! Future is ours!
Without Faith there is no life!
Our spirit is dead!

FAITH: Is confidence! It is certainty!
Faith always leads!

HOPE: Is a young girl with insecure steps!
Charity is the cane in which she leans!

Without Charity there is no Hope!
Without Hope there is no Faith!
Without Faith there is nothing to Hope for!

Charity follows up Faith without
forgetting Hope and hurrying her up!

Hope is a spark ignited by Charity!
With Charity and Hope.. ..
The fire of Faith it’s born!

Our Hope is Jesus, when we want to go heaven!
Charity for us: His death on the cross!
Faith: To believe we are sharing paradise with Him!

These three Ladies always go together,
They are inseparable friends!
When one of them is missing…
Stop! And look for her!

Faith, Hope and Charity, take us to the cross!
The cross takes us to Jesus,
And Jesus take us to God!
Praise the Lord!

Jose Salazar S. de C.
Check Spanish version @: sopadepescadoparaelpecador.blogspot.com

"WHAT DO YOU SEE?"

I was looking at a crucifix with a great desire to ask Him for help, but I,
did not have the courage to do it!
Suddenly, a person approached me, and very kindly said:
Pardon me sir, what are you looking at?
Oh! I’m sorry I said, I was so amazed looking at the crucifix, that I did not realized ,that somebody else was here!
Many people told me he does wonders, and grants people what they want
If the ask Him with Faith, but, I could only see a good person that has been victimized with great cruelty! I see a person that trying to help people, was condemn to die on a cross in which he died with all his good intentions!
And the truth is that how is he going to help me with his hands and feet
nailed down on the cross?
How is He going to help me if he couldn’t help himself?
I do need help! Yes! But I think he could not be able to do it!
Oh! I’m sorry! I’m very sorry to hear you talking that way about Him!
What you are looking at, is just only a small part of his past!
His life is in all three dimensions of time: Past, resent and Future!
Are you trying to tell me that his life does not end on the cross?
You are exactly right! Listen:
The Past of Jesus, begins when his people where asking everyday to God
for a Messiah, a Savior, somebody that could be able to end with their
sufferings and to free them from their enemies!
God had Mercy on them, and sent his beloved Son to help them out,
but they did not believe He was sent by God, and they rejected Him,
and did not rest until they saw Him crucified thinking that it was going to be the end of the story, but it was not!
After his death, He was buried and at the third day, He rose!
He came back to life to never die again! He woke up to an everlasting life!
Jesus was taken to heaven and NOW Present tense, He is seating down at
the right hand of God his Father, ready to listen to all people that tired of being captives of sin, they wish to become free and get rid of their chains!
And by opening their hearts to Jesus Christ, they receive his Holy Spirit
to begin a new life at the service of God and people, in the mean time
they wait for His Glorious return bringing for us, Salvation and also
to judge everyone that rejected Him!
When we see the crucifix, we are not looking at a weak person but,
at the Almighty God, we are not looking at a looser but at a Conqueror!
We are not looking at a person punished for sinner or bad behavior,
We are looking at Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!
Repent for your past! Receive Him now! And live forever!
Thank You Jesus!
Tell me: What do you see?
Jose Salazar S. de C.
“His life is love, His death forgiveness, His resurrection eternal life”

"MAN IN ETERNITY"

Have you read the Bible?
No! To tell you the truth, no! I haven‘t!
Why?
Well, because I tried, and fell to sleep!
Because it is hard to understand!
Because I don’t have time!
Because I have a lot of other things to do! That is why!
Let me ask you another question if you don’t mind:
Do you read the news papers?
Don’t you turn the pages over and over until you get tired?
Yes! But.. That is different!
Why?
Because I need to know all that happened yesterday!
Yes! You are right about that! Yesterday belongs to the past!
That means it is wrong to call it News, because there is nothing new in it!
God’s book the Bible, let you know about the past, the present and the future. Won’t you like to know about the future?
It tells you everything since God created the world, (Past)
Until He is going to renew it! (Future) and also tells you how to remove from you all sin have been accumulated inside since the Past, until the Present so you could have a better future!
And no “News paper” is going to tell you that!
How ever, all these are in the book you don’t want to read The Bible!
I have a question: If I don’t read the Bible, I can not be saved?
Good question! But let me tell you something.. ..
There is no book in the world that can save anybody! No! Not one!
The only thing they can do is to point out where to find The Savior!
And our job as a believer is to find Him!
Are they many “saviors”?
What a question! I want to answer it with another question?
ARE THERE MANY CREATORS OF THE UNIVERSE?
No! there is only ONE!
Then, YOU ANSWERD YOUR OWN QUESTION!
THE Bible tells us who and where He is, and when you find Him,
fall on your knees and beg Him with all your heart to save you!
The Bible tells us all, God has done and will do for us!
I don’t understand! Could you explain me better?
Sure! Look:
God created everything for our enjoyment!
He created the human being to exist forever!
But the devil put his feet inside the plan and spoil it all!
He deceived Eve, who gave Adam to eat from the prohibited fruit,
and then, because of disobedience to God, sin came to the world!
Changing the plan for eternal life to eternal doom!
I, I still don’t understand! Could you explain it better?
Yes! I will! I will explain it in another way:
Just imagine that God made a “movie” called: “Man in Eternity”
This would be a movie in which the human being created at the image and
Likeness of God, will live forever in paradise without any need to work,
just worshiping our Lord and Holy God and procreating until filling up
all the planet with people!
I understand but, living forever, the planet will be full in no time and people won’t have any place to live isn’t it?
Yes! But without having any wars, hate or envies, people could live very happy,and loving themselves, they could live in friendship with God and obtain from Him, greater minds so they could develop other means for example to inhabit other worlds from the millions and millions of planets that could support human life!
If separated from God, man has been able to conquered the moon, and have sent satellites to explore other worlds, next to God, the human being could have made many more wonderful things than they have done now!
Don’t you thing so?
Yes! I agree! But.. ..
What ever happen with the “movie” you were talking about?
Oh! Yes! I’m sorry! I was going some place else!
I was saying that when Adam and Eve disobeyed God, the “movie” stopped!
Because of the devil’s work, God changed the plan and allowed the devil to put his own production named : “The eternal doom of man!
In this movie, man is punished by God removing them from paradise and living from the product of their sweat until the end of his days, and then.. .. For all his sins, man will receive death forever, because they were nobody that could save him from damnation of sin! But God in his infinite Mercy, sent his only Son to destroy the devil’s work!
And by means of his Love for us,He offered himself in sacrifice
to be able to be:
THE SAVIOR OF THE HUMAN RACE!
With his blood, He bought freedom from sin of all who deposit their love and faith in Him ! Faith that believes He is what He says He is:
THE HOLY SON OF GOD!
Faith that make us to believe He died to forgive us and He resurrected
to conquer eternal life for us!
Restoring the friendship with his Father!
Friendship that was broken up by sin!
Jesus Christ practically cold stops the devil’s “movie” and restores the original movie made by God: “MAN IN ETERNITY”
The devil’s movie, will keep playing and playing in us bringing for us all the consequences that comes with it : Sin and condemnation!
Unless we decide to look for Christ to change it and BE SAVED!
SAVED FROM ETERNAL DOOM!
Remember: No book can save us! Not one!
Only Christ can!
And where is He?
He is knocking at the door of your heart!
OPEN IT UP, AND LET HIM IN!

Jose Salazar
S. de C.

"WILL MAN CONQUER THE UNIVERSE?"

He will!
He will? But you just told me that he never will, because he is weak and
always attached to the umbilical cord of mother earth!
What made you change your mind?
No! I haven’t changed my mind! Man in his earthly body never will!
But I read something in the Bible that made me happy! Very happy!
What is that?
Have you read the part in the Bible in which the apostle Paul is talking
about the return of Jesus Christ to earth?
No! I am not sure! What does he say?
He says that when Jesus returns it is going to be a sound of a trumpet
And at the last sound, it will be a change, it will be a transformation of
our bodies, they will be replaced for ones that do not die!
Bodies that will live forever! Because flesh and blood are not suitable
to live in heaven! That means we will not have the necessity of air or
water, it is important to note that he is not talking of a spirit life, but
a super body that does not decay and die like the one we now have!
“In the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the death shall raised incorruptible and we shall be changed!...
Thanks to God which gave us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
Corinthians 52 and 57.
Only one “problem”:
All will have new bodies, yes! All could live eternally, yes!
But the ones that did not believe in the salvation of Jesus Christ,
will be eternally doomed! (Eternal damnation)
In Christ we will be eternally free,
To praise our Lord forever!
Through Christ we will have victory over death!
With Him we will conquer the Universe!
Life forever!, Death forever!
The choice is yours!
Choose right!
And God Bless You!

Jose Salazar
S. de C.