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Do you love? // Você ama?


Do you love? How do you know that is love? Can you love someone or something that you don’t actually know? I keep telling you that God knows you better than you know yourself. So, if He knows you like that, we can only assume that He loves you a lot. He knows the deepest parts of your being. We can all agree with that.

However, when hardships come, we have a hard time acknowledging the presence of God in those situations. We instead turn to our own sufferings and selfishness and make everything about ourselves (my problem, my pain, my heart, my disease, my pride, my ego, it is all about me!), and always forget that God loves, knows and cares for us much more than we care for ourselves. We often have these thoughts “if this thing is happening can’t be God’s doing”, “What did I do wrong?”, “God turned away from me”. I tell you, if this thing is happening isn’t because God turned away from us; it is likely that we turned away from God long ago or it is God’s timing to teach us something new, something that we need in order to be more like Jesus. But we don’t always see that way because we are usually focused on ourselves, and not focused on God’s will. His will is always for us to be like Jesus was, but Boy! How we struggle with it! We say we want to be like Jesus, but when the practice’s time comes, we relinquish, and worse, we blame God for abandoning us; we play the victim card, we say we are suffering, and God is silent. We go stray from God’s presence in our stubbornness.

In the book of Hosea 4:6 says, ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge’. So as I said in the beginning, you only love what you know; Hosea 6:3 says, ‘Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as dawn, He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth’. Let us press on to know the LORD! How deep is that? We have to insist, persist, persevere into knowing God more and more.  We will never cease of knowing God. He has no beginning or end. Infinite is what He is. Forever we will keep learning and knowing Him. That is the way it is. 

You might have read the Bible your whole life, several times, and yet you may not know Him as good as you think. You think knowing God is to be a churchgoer, is to work for Him. Hosea 6:6 says, ‘For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. You know, you can do many things in the church, but that may be all ‘burnt offerings’, sacrifices. Things that you do mechanically. Things that you are used to doing. Maybe because that is the way you learned how to serve God. But what He really wants from you, it that you keep knowing Him, seeking earnestly His presence.

Get your Bible, dedicate your heart in knowing the LORD. The more you know, the more you’ll love Him, the more intimate with Him you become, the easier it will be to feel his heart.

They say about a couple that has been together for so long that they look alike, that one completes the other's thinking.  That is the way we should want our relationship with God to be.


Você ama? Como você sabe que é amor? Você pode amar alguém ou algo que você não conhece? Eu continuo dizendo que Deus te conhece melhor do que você mesmo. Então, se Ele conhece você assim, só podemos assumir que Ele te ama muito. Ele conhece as partes mais profundas do seu ser. Todos podemos concordar com isso.

No entanto, quando surgem dificuldades, temos dificuldade em reconhecer a presença de Deus nessas situações. Nós, ao contrário, nos voltamos para nossos próprios sofrimentos e egoísmos e fazemos tudo sobre nós mesmos (meu problema, minha dor, meu coração, minha doença, meu orgulho, meu ego, é tudo sobre mim!), E sempre esquecemos que Deus ama, conhece e cuida de nós muito mais do que cuidamos de nós mesmos. Muitas vezes temos esses pensamentos "se isso está acontecendo não pode ser feito por Deus", "O que eu fiz de errado?", "Deus se afastou de mim". Eu lhes digo, se isso está acontecendo, não é porque Deus se afastou de nós; É provável que nós nos afastemos de Deus há muito tempo ou que seja hora de Deus nos ensinar algo novo, algo de que precisamos para sermos mais parecidos com Jesus. Mas nem sempre vemos isso porque geralmente estamos focados em nós mesmos e não focados na vontade de Deus. Sua vontade é sempre que sejamos como Jesus foi, mas Menino! Como nos debatemos com isso! Nós dizemos que queremos ser como Jesus, mas quando chega a hora da prática, nós renunciamos e, pior, culpamos Deus por nos abandonar; nós jogamos a carta da vítima, dizemos que estamos sofrendo e Deus está em silêncio. Nós nos afastamos da presença de Deus em nossa teimosia.

No livro de Oséias 4: 6 diz: "Meu povo é destruído por falta de conhecimento; porque você rejeitou o conhecimento’. Então, como eu disse no começo, você só ama o que sabe; Oséias 6: 3 diz: "Conheçamos o Senhor; esforcemo-nos por conhecê-lo. Tão certo como nasce o sol, ele aparecerá; virá para nós como as chuvas de inverno,
como as chuvas de primavera que regam a terra'. Vamos continuar a conhecer o Senhor! Quão profundo é isso? Temos que insistir, persistir, perseverar em conhecer cada vez mais a Deus. Nós nunca cessaremos de conhecer a Deus. Ele não tem começo nem fim. Infinito é o que Ele é. Para sempre vamos continuar aprendendo e conhecendo-o. É assim que é.

Você pode ter lido a Bíblia toda a sua vida, várias vezes, e ainda assim talvez não o conheça tão bem quanto pensa. Você acha que conhecer a Deus é ser um frequentador da igreja, é trabalhar para Ele. Oséias 6: 6 diz: "Pois desejo misericórdia, e não sacrifícios; conhecimento de Deus em vez de holocaustos”. Você sabe, você pode fazer muitas coisas na igreja, mas isso pode ser tudo "holocausto", sacrifícios. Coisas que você faz mecanicamente. Coisas que você está acostumado a fazer. Talvez porque é assim que você aprendeu a servir a Deus. Mas o que Ele realmente quer de você, é que você continue a conhecê-lo, buscando sinceramente a Sua presença.

Pegue sua Bíblia, dedique seu coração em conhecer o SENHOR. Quanto mais você souber, mais você O amará, quanto mais íntimo com Ele você se tornar, mais fácil será sentir o coração dele.

Eles dizem sobre um casal que está junto há tanto tempo que eles se parecem, que um completa o pensamento do outro. É assim que devemos querer que nosso relacionamento com Deus seja.

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  1. The first paragraph reminds me what I heard yesterday "In times of trouble, don't run from Jesus, run to Jesus!"
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lifting-up-others-through-service-country-singer-jimmy/id1081967443?i=1000443601888

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