Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  So, there is a little story that Jesus tells when he is in a Pharisee’s house. But before telling the story it is important to know some cultural background of that time. As we can imagine that at that time didn’t have closed shoes to keep their feet clean, hence the washing feet was provided as a gesture of good education and compassion to the guest. Second, women always had their hair tidied up, for whatever reason she unbounded her hair in public it would cause a shock and some misreading about who she was. So now let’s go back to the story.  Luke 7:36-50 ,  tells that there was this Pharisee called Simon who invited Jesus to a dinner in his house. He was interested in getting to know Jesus; however, he didn't provide the washing feet basin to Jesus when he arrived. But suddenly a woman showed up, this particular woman was known as a sinner and knelt at Jesus' feet shedding tears of gratitude and pouring perfume while kissing his ...

  Funny thing when people who live their lives in their own way and suddenly need something from God and ask Him for it. They wait for the answer, but the answer never comes. Then, they get frustrated and have a tantrum against God and everything related to it. But wait a minute. Let’s think now in our human sphere. When a dad has a kid who is pretty much disobedient, and self-centered, to say the least, and asks for something from his dad, something that he really wants but doesn’t really need it. The dad, very conscientiously of the reality, that he loves a lot his kid, however, if he always gives what the kid wants, what sort of person he is educating? So, the dad decides to say no, and several times he says no to his kid. The kid can mature from this if he bothers to ask why he can’t have it or when he will have it, he probably will learn something from his dad. But as we all know that there are some kids that don’t bother asking anything and j...

Tradução: O fruto que você pode ver é sempre o resultado da raiz que você não pode ver. You might be aware of the things that have been happening in Chile it is a very sad and complicated reality. People are doing horrible things the even I that consider myself with a more liberal in left view of politics and stuff, I am appalled. I would say that what is going on in Chile is the terrorism of the people who have no regard for opinion, law and I dare to say, for human life.   My husband is from Chile and sometimes he tries to call those primitive human beings of animals, I say that it is an offense to the animal kingdom. Although we, humans, are part of this Kingdom, usually I think we are at the bottom of the evolutive chain.   I can explain by the word of God why primitive human beings act in a worse manner than other animals. As you might have once wondered, as I have, animals didn't sin. They can't go against God. God made it that ...