Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  Have you noticed that we always want to be identified as the “good guy”? We love our heroes. They are cool, strong, and have many different powers. The bad guys sometimes are funny, clumsy, and fools although they also have some powers. We know the good will always win.  At least in the movies, we have this knowledge. No matter how strong the evil might look, the good guys will join together and win the battle. What about in the real life? Don’t you think that we are not fighting a battle of good versus evil? Every day there will be something trying to pull us down, to defeat us. During the day we will want to give up or give in, we will give in to anger, gossip, revenge, rivalry, greed, lust, laziness, fear… the list will go on. And by the end of the day, we will feel like all the fight was in vain. We are tired, defeated, and lost. We feel weak and ashamed. We weren't able to fight properly. We sometimes didn’t want even to try to fight. And we drag ourselves to the bench,...

I like talking about Moses and the time in the desert. We can learn so much about that part of the Bible. It is amazing how one can have never read enough of the Bible. You will always learn something new. People who say the Bible is an antiquated, old-fashion book, are completely mistaken. They say that because they haven’t read the book even once, why say they haven’t studied the book ever in their lives. I don’t really understand why some people waste so much energy bad-talk Christianity, the Bible, and Jesus if they don’t even know them. I don’t waste my time talking about people that I barely know. Anyway.   The thing about the crossing of the red sea.  The pastor was fantastic showing us where exactly that happened with proof that really happened in that place. Not that I needed proof to believe it. As he said, if you passed Genesis 1:1 and believed it, why doubt the crossing of the red sea? The point that touched me was about the cloud and the pillar of fire that guided...