Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  Is it possible to have peace with God without having peace with your neighbor? It is written: “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23,24.   I want to point out that it is not who offended that must go and reconcile here in this verse. It is the one who suffered the offense that should go to his brother and straighten things out. You might not have anything against your brother but you know that he does, and If the Holy Spirit brought him to your memory, it means that you should be the one going after him, even though doesn’t look fair to human eyes. But it is not through human eyes that we should be living, walking, and loving. We are so incapable to do the right thing with our own strength or will or even with our sense of justice...

  We live in a society that allows us to indulge in everything. Nobody is going to say anything at least directly that you can’t. Today is the day that You can do everything. If you want to eat, there are hundreds of restaurants, fast food, self-services everywhere, and nobody now very seriously nobody is going to tell you to stop eating. But when you don’t fit in with their beauty standards, they certainly will tell you that you can’t.   You can exercise your body up to a point that you are going to look like a dolly. You go to the gym and spend money and hours there training and training and training…(don’t mind me asking you why so much?) feeding some desire of belonging or fitting in some groups, drawing some attention, dress expensive clothes, or simply addiction… You can buy up to you break your credit cards, you go and travel wherever you want, you enter in all places with your money, you even think that people want ...