Saturday, January 29, 2011

"THE RUBISH BASKET"

“Two friends where chatting, one said: We should repent of our sins, to be
In good standing with God! And the other replied: It is true! But…
It wouldn’t be better not to have anything to repent of?”

“THE RUBBISH BASKET”

It is very difficult to keep clean a rubbish basket!
If we don't clean it everyday,dirt sticks to it, making it harder to clean!
If we take a rubbish basket and we throw away all trash, we clean it,
and put flowers in it, we convert it into a fragrant flower stand!
But if we keep filling it up with trash, it always going to be just that:
A RUBBISH BASKET!
When we sin, we allow the filth of the world contaminate our bodies,
our minds, and our hearts, and a thick veil starts covering our eyes!
This veil, keeps getting thicker, until we cannot distinguish between
good and evil!
Sin is the “Fog” that clouds our sight! It is disobedience to God!
Well, you are probably are going to say: We all sin! True?
Yes! it is true! But.. ..
If sins were like holes on our path, when we see them, we avoid them,
And if we fall into them, we try to get out!
But if we have our eyes covered, we are not going to have any other
choice than to fall in them, and keep sinking in them without hope!
Plenty of this holes or ditches are in our path to Glory!
We have to walk with our eyes well open so we don’t fall in them!
If we do not try to avoid the “holes” we see, how easier we are going
to fall into the ones we cannot see?
We need a light on our path! “ A Light House!” To guide us like
it guides the ships in the coast so they don’t crash into the rocks.
This “Light House” is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
He will gladly shine his Light on our path if we trust Him not to fall!
But if we already are inside the hole, so He can take us out of the sin hole in which we are trapped!
Thanks to God the Father for sending us his beloved Son, to illuminate us
through this world, and to prepare us for the one to come!

Blessed Be The Holy Spirit for keeping us in His Way!
Blessed Be our Lord!
Blessed Be our God!

Jesus said: I am the Light of the world: He that follow me, shall not walk
in darkness but shall have the Light of Life. John 8-12.
PRAISE THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.
For a Spanish version go to:
sopadepescadoparaelpecador.blogspot.com

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

"THE SICK"

“Healthy people don’t need a doctor, I came to heal the sick”
Mathew 5-32.


“THE SICK”

Feeling a little bit sick,
I went to see a doctor,
Very kindly he said:
Lay down on the bed!

Does it hurt here?
Does it hurt there?

Doctor I said
It hurts everywhere!

I feel my head oppressed
And my mouth is dry and thirsty
Could it be for so much drinking?
I don’t know what I was thinking!

That is what I was going to say!
You are healthy like a brick!
You are drunk! You are not sick!

You don’t need any medicine!
What you need is discipline!
Choose better your friends,
And walk away from the canteens!

I use to have another patient
With a similar problem,
He did not listen what I said,
And now he is death!

You are still very young,
And destroying all your life!
You better stop drinking,
If you want to stop sinking!

God can help you!
If you want to change your life!
You better get close to Christ,
He will open up your sight!

If you are sick
And a doctor haven’t seen,
Get close to Christ!
Better doctor, never been!

José Salazar
S. de C.
For a Spanish version go to:
Sopadepescadoparaelpecador.blogspot.com

Monday, January 3, 2011

"WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER..."

“The Pharisees asked Jesus if it was lawful to divorce from their wives,
He asked them: What did Moses said about this? And they answered that it was all right, as long as they gave her a bill of divorcement to put her away.
Jesus told them:For the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this precept, but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female, for this cause, shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh, so they are not two, but one flesh .Therefore...
What God had join together, let no man put asunder” Mark Chapter 10.

“DIVORCE”
When we met our couple, everything was nice and sweet, but as the time
Goes by, our defects start to show more and more and the love we said
we felt, little by little, started to melt!
We begin rejecting each other instead of increasing our love a lot more!
Love in a couple is like watering a plant, when we do it regularly, the plant grows up, shines like the sun, and becomes beautiful! But when we stop taking care of it, its leaves begin to fall, it withers, and finally dies!
It is our fault of course!
But we try to blame somebody else for our lack of love!
Hate! In one word is TO HURT!
Hurt the feelings of people awaking in them:Bitterness, pain and tears!
LOVE, being the opposite of hate, awakes the feeling of HAPPINESS!
But,love in our marriage does not exist anymore!We don’t love each other!
I understand! I understand! But look: Jesus Christ said:
“There is more happiness in giving than in receiving!” That means that
in the precise moment we give happiness, immediately, we receive it!
If we are not receiving love from our spouse, it is because we are not giving it to them! Do you understand?
On the other hand: In the instant we give somebody an act of hate.. ..
It hurt us right away! So, why do we do it?
To love is to give, without expecting anything in return, however,
Hate or Love, fructifies and return to us with interests!
When we get married, we compromise to unite ourselves into one soul!
Now we divided and became two again, what ever happen to us?
Very simple: The plant of love we had, occupied the best place in our
home, little by little we were pushing it out of the house and now
it is standing next to the garbage cans where it’s dying!
But it is still time to rescue it, taking care of it, as we use to do before,so it could recover its strength and beauty and it can begin to produce the fruits we use to enjoy before with so much love!
Without even notice it, we put a tree of hate in the place where our plant
of love where, we must cut if from the roots and trash can it so it cannot
come back! And put our plant of love where it belongs! In our heart!

GIVING LOVE WITHOUT EXPECTING SOMETHING IN RETURN,
IS THE PERFECT “FERTILIZER” FOR OUR LOVE PLANT!
THE MORE SATISFYING LOVE IS NOT THE ONE WE RECEIVE,
BUT THE ONE WE GIVE!

GLORY TO THE LORD!

José Salazar
S. de C.