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How much you care? // Quanto você se importa/?



Whenever we hurt somebody that we care about, we hurry to make it right. We don’t want to waste a minute thinking about that person’s sufferings because we hurt them. Sometimes, if it is hard to get a hold of them and we just don’t think it is good enough to send a message or call because they are impersonal, and we want to make it right in person, eye to eye. How important that person, that just came into mind, is for you! You sleep better when everything is good again with this person, right?

How many times we hurry to talk to God and say to Him how sorry we are for the mistakes that we have made this day? How many nights of sleep have we lost because of guilt and shame before God? Pause here a little bit, think about it. If you haven’t done it, what does that mean? 1. You are a saint or 2. you don’t care enough about God.
If none of the above, what you have done is you put it behind you and pretend that didn’t happen, so you don’t need to hurry to Him. You know the truth will come out eventually, don’t you?

Psalm 51 David rushed to the Lord as soon as he realized how awful he had behaved. He committed several sins all at once (not like him, but we all do). Do you know what he did? He lusted, coveted, committed adultery and then he murdered. “Oh God have mercy on me” he started. He confessed, he repented. He was afraid of God’s judgment. He pleaded for the Lord’s mercy, steadfast love. He knew how badly he looked like before God. He asked God to look the other way and forgive him.

1 Have mercy on me, O God,
    according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
    blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
    and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
    and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
    and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
    and justified when you judge.
9 Hide your face from my sins
    and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Think about your sins. You have made God sad and hurt. Why don’t we have the same attitude towards God when we sin that the way we have when we hurt somebody else we care about?

Let’s pray: Father in heaven, have mercy on me and forgive me if I have not come to your presence when I hurt you. I know my sins yet show them to me so I can feel the urge to come to You every time I have to. In Jesus’s name, Amen.

Sempre que machucamos alguém que nos importamos, nós nos apressamos em fazer as coisas certas. Não queremos desperdiçar um minuto pensando sobre o sofrimento dessa pessoa, porque ferimos. Às vezes, se é difícil entrar em contato, e não achamos que seja bom o bastante mandar uma mensagem ou ligar, porque essas coisas são impessoais, e queremos fazer as coisas pessoalmente, olho no olho. Quão importante é essa pessoa, que acaba de entrar em mente, para você! Você dorme melhor quando tudo está bem novamente com essa pessoa, certo?

Quantas vezes nos apressamos em falar com Deus e dizer a Ele como lamentamos os erros que cometemos hoje? Quantas noites de sono perdemos por culpa e vergonha diante de Deus? Pausa aqui um pouco. Se você não faz, o que isso significa? 1. Você é um santo ou 2. você não se importa o suficiente com Deus.
Se nenhuma das opções acima, o que você fez é deixar para trás e fingir que isso não aconteceu, então você não precisa se apressar em falar com ele. Você sabe que a verdade aparecerá eventualmente, não é?

Salmos 51 Davi correu para o Senhor assim que percebeu quão terrivelmente ele se comportara. Ele cometeu vários pecados de uma vez (não como ele, mas todos nós fazemos). Você sabe o que ele fez? Ele cobiçou, desejou, cometeu adultério e depois assassinou. "Oh Deus tenha piedade de mim", ele começou. Ele confessou, ele se arrependeu. Ele estava com medo do julgamento de Deus. Ele implorou pela misericórdia do Senhor, amor inabalável. Ele sabia como Deus o via naquele momento. Ele pediu a Deus para olhar para o outro lado e perdoá-lo.

1 Tem piedade de mim, ó Deus!
    de acordo com seu amor infalível;
de acordo com sua grande compaixão
    apague minhas transgressões.
2 Lave todas as minhas iniqüidades
    e purifica-me do meu pecado.
3 Porque conheço as minhas transgressões
    e meu pecado está sempre diante de mim.
4 Contra você, somente você, eu pequei
    e feito o que é mal à sua vista;
então você está certo em seu veredicto
    e justificado quando você julgar.
9 Esconda seu rosto dos meus pecados
    e apague toda a minha iniquidade.
10 Cria em mim um coração puro, ó Deus.
    e renovar um espírito firme dentro de mim.
11 Não me elimine da sua presença
    ou tire seu Espírito Santo de mim.
12 Restitui-me a alegria da tua salvação
    e me conceda um espírito voluntário para me sustentar.

Pense nos seus pecados. Você fez Deus triste e ferido. Por que não temos a mesma atitude em relação a Deus quando pecamos, da mesma forma que temos quando ferimos alguém com quem nos importamos?

Vamos orar: Pai do céu, tenha misericórdia de mim e perdoe-me se eu não venho à sua presença quando erro. Eu sei dos meus pecados, mas ainda mostra-me para que eu possa sentir o desejo de ir até você toda vez que precisar. Em nome de Jesus, amém.

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