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An easy fix? // Solução fácil?




Who doesn’t like an easy fix? Better a fast fix! We all would love that our problems were easy to fix. Or that someone could fix them for us. Instead, they drag us out through days, months even years, and we still don’t know how to fix them. Why? Maybe because we are always looking for easy and fast ways to solve them.

When I was a kid in school, my math teachers used to say, “Read the questions more than once, so you don’t make mistakes”. So many times, I made foolish mistakes just because I didn’t pay enough attention to the question.

In Esther 4:4 – 8 (read it here), Esther wanted to fix the problem by changing the appearance of Mordecai. But even if he had accepted that that wouldn’t change the real reason why he was wearing sackcloth and ashes. We usually think that changing the outside is enough. Sometimes we know that changing the outside doesn’t change anything, but it buys us some time to fix the problem or to worsen it. So, Mordecai instructed the eunuch to explain to her what was going on and how she would help him.

We often have this problem. We don’t listen. We don’t want to be explained. We think we already know. But we need to listen. If we want to fix something, we need to learn about it first. We read it, we study it, we pay attention to it. This isn’t fast. It takes time.

The author of the lesson I’m studying it wrote something very good. I’m quoting now:
If people around us helped us avoid every possible unpleasantry, fixed every hangnail, and anesthetized every headache for us, we’d quit learning how to deal with difficulty. We’d forget how to cope and we’d crush under the least inconvenience. In daily living, strength comes from muscle, and muscle develops with the workout. This is as true spiritually as physically. What we don’t use, we lose. I’d like to propose that Esther may have had “rank without substance” until now, but her life was about to change – not because of her appearance.” Beth Moore.

This made me think about faith. When she said, “what we don’t use, we lose”. How else would we use our faith if not by our struggles? In math, if we don’t practice with many exercises, we don’t learn it. Also with physical exercise. If we don’t practice, we don’t do them perfectly and probably we will hurt ourselves.

Hathach (the eunuch) was told to explain it to her. Make sure she didn’t blanket the impact with denial. Get it through her darling, crowned head. With every footfall of the eunuch to the queen’s chambers, the luxury of ignorance was fleeting. Esther’s superficial life was about to be shattered, and a woman much deeper than her skin was about to unearthed.
“As painful as the process may be, that which shatters our superficiality also shatters the fetters of out fragility and frees us to walk with dignity and might to our destinies. We are not the fragile flowers we’ve considered ourselves to be. We, like Esther, are the warrior princesses of God.” Beth Moore.

We got to face our problems with a high head, learn about it and patiently plan how to fix it. If you keep reading the book of Esther, you will see how she developed a plan and executed it without hurry. She was strategical, she was precise in every detailed. She won, not with her beauty, but with her intelligence and patience. She saved her people from destruction, from mass slaughter. But first, she prayed and faced the problem, then she learned about it, she planned, and then she executed the plan beautifully. That, my brother and sister, is how we solve our problems.

Quem não gosta de uma solução fácil? Melhor uma correção rápida! Todos nós gostaríamos que nossos problemas fossem fáceis de resolver. Ou que alguém pudesse resolvê-los por nós. Em vez disso, eles nos arrastam por dias, meses e até anos, e ainda não sabemos como consertá-los. Por quê? Talvez porque estamos sempre procurando maneiras fáceis e rápidas de resolvê-los.

Quando eu era criança na escola, meus professores de matemática costumavam dizer: "Leia as perguntas mais de uma vez, para não cometer erros". Tantas vezes cometi erros tolos só porque não prestei atenção suficiente na pergunta.

Em Ester 4: 4-8 (leia aqui), Ester queria resolver o problema mudando a aparência de Mordecai. Mas mesmo que ele tivesse aceitado, isso não mudaria a real razão pela qual ele estava vestindo pano de saco e cinzas. Geralmente pensamos que mudar o exterior é o suficiente. As vezes sabemos que mudar o lado de fora não muda nada, mas nos dá tempo para resolver o problema ou piorá-lo. Então, Mordecai instruiu o eunuco a explicar-lhe o que estava acontecendo e como ela o ajudaria.

Nós geralmente temos esse problema. Nós não escutamos. Nós não queremos ser explicados. Nós achamos que já sabemos. Mas precisamos escutar. Se queremos consertar algo, precisamos aprender primeiro. Nós lemos, estudamos, prestamos atenção a isso. Isso não é rápido. Leva tempo.

A autora da lição que estou estudando escreveu algo muito bom. Estou citando agora:
“Se as pessoas ao nosso redor nos ajudassem a evitar todos os desgostos possíveis, corrigissem todas as unhas e anestesiassem cada dor de cabeça para nós, desistiríamos de aprender como lidar com as dificuldades. Nós nos esqueceríamos de como lidar e nos esmagaríamos com o menor inconveniente. No dia a dia, a força vem do músculo, e o músculo se desenvolve com o exercício. Isso é tão verdadeiro espiritualmente quanto fisicamente. O que não usamos, perdemos. Eu gostaria de propor que Esther pode ter tido "rank sem substância" até agora, mas sua vida estava prestes a mudar - não por causa de sua aparência. "Beth Moore.

Isso me fez pensar em fé. Quando ela disse: "o que não usamos, perdemos". De que outra forma usaríamos nossa fé, senão por nossas lutas? Em matemática, se não praticarmos muitos exercícios, não aprenderemos. Também com exercício físico. Se não praticarmos, não os faremos perfeitamente e provavelmente nos machucaremos.

Hathach (o eunuco) foi dito para explicar isso a ela. Certifique-se de que ela não se protegeu do impacto com a negação. O eunuco tinha que colocar dentro da cabeça coroada dela o real problema. Com cada passo do eunuco para os aposentos da rainha, o luxo da ignorância estava fugindo. A vida superficial de Ester estava prestes a ser destruída, e uma mulher muito mais profunda do que a sua pele estava prestes a desenterrar.
“Por mais doloroso que seja o processo, o que quebra nossa superficialidade também quebra os grilhões da fragilidade e nos libera para caminhar com dignidade e força para nossos destinos. Não somos as flores frágeis que consideramos ser. Nós, como Ester, somos as princesas guerreiras de Deus. ”Beth Moore.

Temos que encarar nossos problemas com a cabeça erguida, aprender sobre ele e planejar pacientemente como consertá-lo. Se você continuar lendo o livro de Ester, verá como ela desenvolveu um plano e o executou sem pressa. Ela era estratégica, ela era precisa em todos os detalhes. Ela ganhou, não com sua beleza, mas com sua inteligência e paciência. Ela salvou seu povo da destruição, de um massacre em massa. Mas primeiro, ela orou e enfrentou o problema, então ela aprendeu sobre ele, ela planejou, e então executou o plano lindamente. Assim, meu irmão e minha irmã, é como resolvemos nossos problemas.

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