Archive for February, 2007

Open Up!- ¡Abréte!

How many times we can be deaf and mute from what the Lord is doing around us?. In Numbers I read about a King (King Balak) who didn’t want to hear what the God wanted to do. He even went and brought a prophet so he could hear what we wanted to hear. Sometimes I need this word spoken to me: Ephphatha! Upen up! so I can see and hear what the Lord is telling me. (Mark 7:34) but most of the time I seek people so I can be told what to do or the things I want to hear. I feel like the deaf and mute, letting others bring me to Jesus so I can be healed.

¿Cuántas veces podemos estar sordos y mudos de lo que Dios esta haciendo entre nosotros? En Numeros yo leo acerca de un Rey (Rey Balac) que no queria escuchar lo que Dios quería hacer. Él aún fué y trajó a un profeta para poder escuchar lo que él quería escuchar. Muchas veces yo necesito esta palabra en mi, ¡Efata! ¡ábrete!, para poder ver y escuchar lo que el Señor quiere decirme(Marcos 7:34) pero muchas veces busco a otras personas para que me digan lo que tengo que hacer o las cosas que quiero escuchar. Me siento como el mudo y sordo, dejando que otros me lleven a Jesús para ser sanado.

What do I want?-¿Qué quiero?

Hoy me preguntaron algo que me hizo pensar, ¿Miguel, pues qué es lo que quieres hacer en tu vida? no supe responder a esa pregunta, claro me gustaría hacer muchas cosas pero en realidad yo estoy dispuesto a hacer lo que Dios quiera que yo haga. Y pues, ¿qué es lo que Dios quiere? ah!! pues eso si no lo se, lo que si se es que Él desea que yo este disponible para que podamos tener una relación intima, lo demás vendrá por consecuencia….”Contemplare su belleza, estudiaré a sus pies” Salmos 27:3-5

Today I was asked something that made me think, Miguel what is what you really want to do? I didn’t know what to answer, of course, I would love to do lots of stuff but truly I am willing to do everything God ask me to do. So, what is what God wants me to do? well!!! I really don’t know that. What I know is that He desires for me to be available to have a intimate relationship with him, the rest will come……”I’ll contemplate his beauty, I’ll study at his feet” Psalm 27:3-5

Chasing Love- Amor perseguidor

I can not imagine how my life will be if I can realized that is not me chasing God, that is not me trying to do my best to be with him, that it is not about reading more books, or studying more that will get me closer to Him. It is not about me getting to Him. He, Abba, is chasing me, He has chased me all these years since I was in my mothers womb. Every single day of my life. He loves me period. Why is then so hard to live it? (Psalm 23:6)
“The voice of Jesus says, I love you with a love that has no limits. Do not run away from me. Come back to me–not once, not twice, but always again. I so much want you to be close to me. I know all your thoughts. I hear all your words. I see all your actions. And I love you because you are beautiful, made in my own image, an expression of my most intimate love” (Henry Nouwen)

No puedo imaginar como sería mi vida si yo me diera cuenta que no soy yo persiguiendo a Dios, que no soy yo tratando de dar lo mejor de mi, que no es acerca de leer más libros, o estudiar más que me hará acercarme a Él. No es acerca de mi acercandome a Él. Él, Abba, me esta presiguiendo, me ha perseguido todos estos años desde que estaba en el vientre de mi madre. Cada día de mi vida. Él me ama punto y aparte. ¿Entonces porqué es tan díficil vivirlo? (Salmos 23:6)
“La voz de Jesús dice, te amo con un amor que no tiene limites. No huyas de mi. Regresa–no solo una vez, sino dos veces, pero siempre regresa. Quiero tanto que estes cerca de mi. Sé todos tus pensamientos. Escucho todas tus palabras. Veo todas tus acciones. Y te amo porque eres hermoso, hecho a a mi imagen, una expresión de mi amor mas intimo” (Henry Nouwen)

Suffering Love-Amor que sufre

Today Paula and I went to have brunch together and I pulled out from my bagpack a stack of thank you notes we wanted to send to the people who helped us go through the difficult time of loosing Alex. You know, the feelling still there, the emptyness still there, the questions still there. I know God’s promises are true but sometimes it just feel that those promises are unreal and unpersonal. I know the love of God for me, but like a dear friend of us told me, “sometimes this suffering is more than I can handle”. Suffering Love, something I still learning…

Hoy Paula y yo fuimos a almorzar juntos y de mi mochila saque un paquete de tarjetas de agradecimiento para mandar a las personas que nos ayudaron en el momento tan dificil de perder a Alex. Saben, los sentimiento siguen alli, el vacio sigue alli, las preguntas siguen alli. Se que las promesas de Dios son verdaderas pero aveces siento que esas promesas no son reales y nada personales. Se del amor de Dios para mi, pero como dijo una muy querida amiga de nosotros, “algunas veces este sufrimiento es mas de lo que puedo soportar”. El amor que sufre, algo que sigo aprendiendo….

Sunday Service-Servicio del Domingo

Today we have a small crowd at Sunday service so because of that I tried to make the service like a living room discussion. It is just hard to make Sunday service a place of community where everybody can get involved and we can learn together. Sometimes it just seem that we come and we present a show and we go home. During this time and while I started to share a question came to my thinking, “Why Sunday Service is so different than our daily life?, What makes Sunday service different? the presence of God? isn’t He in the midst of everything I do? because is the day I set apart for Him? only one day? I am very cheap with my relationship with Him if I am just setting apart one day, what about the rest of the week? Why I cannot make of this soccer league a Sunday service? or the food pantry a Sunday Service? why my whole life can not become a Sunday Service. Making of Sunday Worship a lifestyle. I talk about it, do I do it? Two different things.

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