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El hombre que no vive para servir, no sirve para vivir
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El hombre que no vive para servir, no sirve para vivir
El hombre que no vive para servir, no sirve para vivir. Y está casi demá s decir que, no podremos servir, mientras practiquemos un estilo de vida individualista; uno que nos separa y aí sla de nuestro pró jimo, haciendo de nuestra auto-gratificació n la suprema meta de nuestra existencia. Es que, no solamente es malo que el hombre este solo (Gen. 2: 18), sino que, la vida no nos mostrara su mas excelsa faz, sino hasta el momento en que aceptemos el hecho de que, cuando hacemos bien al pró jimo (cuando servimos al pueblo que nos rodea), nos hacemos bien a nosotros mismos, como está escrito:
" Si tu fueres hoy siervo de este pueblo, y lo sirvieres, y respondié ndoles buenas palabras les hablares, ellos te servirá n (a ti) para siempre" - 1 Reyes 12: 7
The Kingdom of God is wherever God is obeyed
Is God your King? Do you obey Him observing what He commanded upon the Two stone tablets? As is written: “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the Law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies… Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently”- Psalm 119: 1-4; and also- “… but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments”- Matthew 19: 17
La Humildad, es la llave al Jardí n del Edé n; pues el humilde ya ha alcanzado la Santidad, y la Sabidurí a
La tradició n Samaritana dice que “la cabeza” (es decir, " la mas alta manifestació n" ) de la Sabidurí a, es el temor a Dios; como esta escrito, “El temor a Dios es la cabeza de la sabidurí a”- Salmo 111: 10 (la palabra Hebrea “reshit”, que en el anterior pasaje a menudo es traducida como “el principio”, significa tambié n “la cabeza”). Pero, " la humildad", es tanto mayor al temor a Dios, que este ú ltimo es solamente su taló n, como esta escrito: “Es el taló n de la humildad, el temor de Dios... ”- Prov. 22: 4 (la palabra hebrea “ekev”, que en el anterior pasaje a menudo es traducida como “recompensa”, significa tambié n “taló n”).
De igual modo, “la humildad” es la mayor de todas las virtudes, pues la Escritura dice: “El Señ or me ha ungido para dar buenas nuevas a los humildes... ”- Isaí as 61: 1. Note que, el anterior pasaje, no dice que las buenas nuevas [de salvació n] son para los sabios, para los santos, para los que tienen fe, para los Judios, para los Cristianos, o para los Musulmanes; ¡ Dice que son para los humildes! (intimando con ello que, quienes tienen un corazó n humilde, ya han alcanzado sabidurí a, santidad, fe, y temor de Dios, sin importar cual sea su raza o credo).
El Cristianismo es una santa y noble religió n. Pero, tristemente, sus escritos describen al creyente como insensato, e inmaduro. Como esta escrito: “Hermanos, no seá is niñ os en el modo de pensar, sino sed niñ os en la malicia, pero maduros en el modo de pensar”- 1 Corintios 14: 20
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Why Did God allow Abraham to attempt to sacrifice Isaac?
The Hebrew Bible implicit message is that, there is no evil in the God of Israel [the Creator of the Universe], as He is morally perfect (“HE IS THE ROCK, HIS WORK IS PERFECT: for all his ways are judgment: A GOD OF TRUTH AND WITHOUT INIQUITY, JUST AND RIGHT IS HE”- Deuteronomy 32: 4). And this moral perfection prevents the Creator from arbitrarily judging any of His creatures.
Rather, God made His universe so that, the law of “measure for measure” (also know as “sowing and reaping”, or “action and reaction”), allow his creatures to be judged by themselves. How? By being forced to “reap” the same goodness [or evil] they have willingly “sowed”. For example, if a Hebrew believer takes advantage of a widowed woman [or an orphaned child], God’s justice will let such man die, so that his wife becomes a widow, and his kids become orphans [so that both of the former are in turn taken advantage of! ].
As it is written: “YOU MUST NOT MISTREAT ANY WIDOW OR FATHERLESS CHILD. IF YOU DO MISTREAT THEM, they will no doubt cry to me, and I will certainly hear their cry. MY ANGER WILL BURN, AND I WILL KILL YOU WITH THE SWORD; THEN YOUR WIVES WILL BE WIDOWS AND YOUR CHILDREN FATHERLESS”- Exodus 22: 22.
And this truth explains why God brought Abraham's son [Isaac] to the brink of death. You see, Abraham's wife [Sarah] asked him to send Hagar and Abraham's son Ishmael into the wilderness (“DRIVE OUT THIS SLAVE WITH HER SON... ”- Genesis 21: 8).
And, by doing this, Sarah caused extreme suffering on Hagar, whose son was brought to the brink of death («WHEN THE WATER IN THE SKIN WAS USED UP, SHE [HAGAR] LEFT THE BOY [ISHMAEL] UNDER ONE OF THE BUSHES. Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, FOR SHE SAID, “DO NOT LET ME SEE THE BOY DIE” AND SHE SAT OPPOSITE HIM, AND LIFTED UP HER VOICE AND WEPT»- Genesis 21: 15-16).
Thus, as Sarah sowed this suffering upon Hagar [letting Hagar's son come to the brink of death], God's perfect justice allowed Sarah to experience exactly the same suffering, as God allowed Abraham to bring Sarahs' son (Isaac) unto the brink of death.
In fact, just as Hagar couldn't endure the potential death of his son Ishmael, likewise Sarah couldn't bear the potential death of his son Isaac [as the Jewish tradition says that, upon hearing of Abraham's intention to sacrifice Isaac, she died]
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