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Wake up call // chamada para acordar


Hoje é um dia triste para a comunidade de Christchurch, na Nova Zelândia. As pessoas têm tanto ódio em seus corações, que nem posso começar a explicar.

Jesus disse: "e porque a iniquidade será aumentada (cheque), o amor de muitos esfriará (cheque duplo)". Mateus 24:12

Temos visto muitas dessas coisas ultimamente, mas não vamos nos acostumar com isso. Vamos nos permitir lamentar por eles, sermos sensíveis sobre o que aconteceu. Não vamos esperar pelo próximo ataque. Nós apenas tivemos um tiroteio em uma escola no Brasil esta semana (que não é um evento comum no Brasil), não é um evento comum na Nova Zelândia; então está piorando.

Está escrito: "Não se conformem com o padrão deste mundo, mas sejam transformados pela renovação da nossa mente" Romanos 12: 2. Isso significa que hoje vamos sentir a dor deles. Suas perdas são nossas perdas, que não vamos apenas chorar se isso tivesse acontecido conosco. Não seja tão egoísta. Quem ama, sofre. Deus é amor, se você diz que ama a Deus e não sofre, você é um mentiroso. Nós devemos sentir a dor dos outros. Amar uns aos outros como a si mesmos. Como você está fazendo isso hoje?

Hoje, muitas crianças estão saindo para protestar por ações de seu governo. Eles querem um compromisso com o meio ambiente. Eles já sabem que, se continuarmos do jeito que estamos, eles não terão futuro. Os protestos costumavam ser feitos por adultos, mas agora as crianças estão ficando impacientes com toda essa conformidade. Os adultos não se preocupam com o meio ambiente, o uso de plástico, os fast-foods, não passam tempo com seus filhos, enchem-nos com eletrônicos para não serem incomodados.

Onde está o amor? Você ama seu filho? O que você está fazendo sobre o meio ambiente? Você está mostrando alguma preocupação em casa pelo meio ambiente? Se você não se importa com isso, não se importa com eles, com o futuro deles. Você não vê?

Temos visto falta de amor em tantas camadas agora. As pessoas são mais intolerantes, impacientes, insensíveis, sem respeito. Todo o escárnio e nenhum respeito pelo outro, é repugnante. Você não se sente assim? Com nojo? Não se conforme com o padrão deste mundo.

Nós somos as únicas espécies que são capazes de matar outro animal, incluindo um deles sem qualquer pensamento moral. Em um piscar de olhos. Eles se sentem justificados por matar.

Portanto, a matança na mesquita hoje e a matança lenta da humanidade é apenas o resultado da falta de amor. Você não ama seu próximo como a si mesmo e não ama seu filho o suficiente para se preocupar com o futuro dele; é por isso que eles estão protestando nas ruas, enquanto você está desperdiçando sua gasolina, seu ar condicionado ou aquecedor. Você está tomando o seu café em um copo de plástico, e você está anestesiado com todos os eventos que acontecem ao redor do mundo, enganando a si mesmo que não vai te tocar.

Espere e veja. Está chegando a todos nós.
Today is a sad day for the community of Christchurch, New Zealand. People have so much hate in their hearts, that I can’t even begin to explain.

Jesus said, ‘and because lawlessness will be increased (check), the love of many will grow cold (double check).’ Matthew 24:12

We have seen a lot of these things happening lately but let us not get used to it. Let’s allow ourselves to mourn for them, be sensitive about what happened. Let’s not just wait for the next attack. We just had a shooting in a school in Brazil this week (that is not a common event in Brazil), as it wasn’t a common event in New Zealand; so, it is getting worse.

It is written “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind” Romans 12:2. It means that today, we are going to feel their pain. Their losses are our losses, that we won’t just cry if that had happened with ourselves. Let’s not be that selfish. Who loves, suffers. God is love, if you say you love God and don’t suffer, you are a liar. We are supposed to feel others pain. Love each other as yourselves. How are you doing this today?

Today, many kids are going out to protest for actions from their government. They want a commitment to the environment. They already know that if we keep doing the way we are, they won’t have a future. The protests used to be done by adults, but now the kids are growing impatient with all this conformity. The adults don’t care about the environment, the plastic use, the junk food, they don’t spend time with their kids, fill them with electronics so they won’t bother them.

Where is the love? Do you love your kid? What are you doing about the environment? Are you showing any concern at all at home? If you don’t care about it, you don’t care about them, about their future. Don’t you see?

We have seen a lack of love in so many layers now.
People are more intolerant, impatient, insensitive, no respect. All the mocking and no respect for the other, it is disgusting. Don’t you feel this way? Disgusted? Do not conform to the pattern of this world.

We are the only species that are able to kill another animal, including one of their own without any moral thought. In a blink of an eye. They feel justified for killing.

So, the killing in the mosque today and the slow massive killing of humanity is just the result of the lack of love. You don’t love your neighbor as yourself, and you don’t love your kid enough to worry about their future; that’s why they are on the streets protesting, while you are wasting your gas, your conditioning air or heating. You are taking your coffee in a plastic cup, and you are numb with all the events happening around the world, deceiving yourself that won’t touch you.

Wait and see. It is coming to all of us.

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