No te vengo a pedir

Noble corazón

Hace poco tuvo que sacrificar a su mascota más pequeña, a la amada Josefina de su Napoléon. Sí, esos son los nombres de su querida pareja de perros. Qué podía decirle más que lo siento mucho. Sé cuánto la quería. Nunca olvidaré el primero que tuvo. El que escabando un hoyo en tierra se fue sin despedirse. Cuánto le lloró.

Y ahora es su cumpleaños, bueno técnicamente en un par de horas para un 18 de junio. Año 28 de mi hermana. La de noble corazón. La que ha llorado sí, pero por esa misma razón ha aprendido a sonreír en mayor medida.

Nuestro Dios te bendiga siempre.

Psalm 73: Judgment Day

By Paul Tripp

"For behold, those who are far from you will perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you." (v.28)


To transgressing of your boundaries
You will put an end.
To human thoughts of autonomy
You will put an end.
To delusions of self-sufficiency
You will put an end.
Grace forbids these going on forever.
To acts of violence and deeds of greed
You will put an end.
To the burn of lust
You will put an end.
To injustice and inhumanity
You will put an end.
Grace prohibits these going on forever.
To the silent writing of my own law
You will put an end.
To using others for personal pleasure
You will put an end.
To robbing you of divine glory
You will put an end.
Grace won't tolerate these going on forever.
To disobedience to parents
You will put an end.
To gossip and slander
You will put an end.
To the worship of comfort
You will put an end.
Grace wars against these going on forever.
To self-aggrandizing pride
You will put an end.
To self-oriented envy
You will put an end.
To subtle daily idolatries
You will put an end.
Grace will not permit these going on forever.
To desire-driven lawlessness
You will put an end.
To attempts at self-sovereignty
You will put an end.
To denial of what is true.
You will put an end.
Grace restricts these going on forever.
To denial of You and the elevation of self
You will put an end.
To mockery of what is good
You will put an end.
To the love of what is foolish
You will put an end.
Grace will not allow these going on forever.
What is now will not go on
forever.
This world is marching toward
an end.
We can embrace the hope of
justice.
Final judgment is coming.
Grace requires evil to die forever.
Those far from You will
perish.
Those unfaithful to You will
come to an end.
I have been unfaithful to you.
I have chosen to be far from you.
I have broken each of your laws.
But I am not afraid of what
You will put to an end.
Grace has drawn me near to you.
Grace has paid for my unfaithfulness.
Grace has made me clean in Your eyes.
Grace put my stripes on Jesus
so I would not face them
when you put what is now
to an end.

http://paultrippministries.blogspot.com/2009/04/psalm-73-judgment-day.html

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Cómo, dónde sin Ti

“Jesús, el manantial de mi vida, la fuente de mi alegría”.-Rojo, grupo musical

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Believing Better

By Tullian Tchividjian

Remembrance vs. Spiritual Surveillance

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in “accountability groups” where there has been little to no attention given to the gospel whatsoever. There’s no reminder of what Christ has done for our sin—“cleansing us from its guilt and power”—and the resources that are already ours by virtue of our union with him. These groups produce a “do more, try harder” moralism that robs us of the joy and freedom Jesus paid dearly to secure for us.

When the goal becomes conquering our sin instead of soaking in the conquest of our Savior, we actually begin to shrink spiritually. Sinclair Ferguson rightly points this out:

Those who have almost forgotten about their own spirituality because their focus is so exclusively on their union with Jesus Christ and what He has accomplished are those who are growing and exhibiting fruitfulness. Historically speaking, whenever the piety of a particular group is focused on OUR spirituality, that piety will eventually exhaust itself on its own resources. Only when our piety forgets about us and focuses on Jesus Christ will our piety be nourished by the ongoing resources the Spirit brings to us from the source of all true piety, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sin: An Identity Crisis

The Puritans used to say that far too many Christians live beneath the level of their privileges. Therefore, I need to be told by those around me that every time I sin I’m momentarily suffering from an identity crisis: forgetting who I actually belong to, what I really want at my remade core, and all that is already mine in Christ. The only way to deal with remaining sin long-term is to develop a distaste for it in light of the glorious riches we already possess in Christ. I need my real friends to remind me of this—every day. Please tell me again and again that God doesn’t love me more when I obey or less when I disobey. Knowing this actually enlarges my heart for God and therefore shrinks my hunger for sin. So, don’t let me forget it. My life depends on it!

Believing Deeper, Not Behaving Better

Christian growth, in other words, does not happen first by behaving better, but believing better—believing in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners. I need my family and friends to remind me of this all the time.

The bottom line is this, Christian: because of Christ’s work on your behalf, God does not dwell on your sin the way you do. So, relax and rejoice…and you’ll actually start to get better. The irony, of course, is that it’s only when we stop obsessing over our own need to be holy and focus instead on the beauty of Christ’s holiness, that we actually become more holy! Not to mention, we start to become a lot easier to live with!

Will someone please keep reminding me of this?

http://theresurgence.com/2011/06/13/accountability-groups-the-tyranny-of-do-more-try-harder?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheResurgence+%28The+Resurgence%29

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Vive en mí

No es que me he olvidado de este espacio, simplemente, creo que a eso se debe, muchas cosas sin llegar a su definición, giran en mi cabeza. Empiezo un texto, varios quizá, muchos, la verdad, y ninguno llega hasta aquí. Tal vez sea lo mejor, porque hay que tenerle respeto a las palabras. Pero una cosa sí sé, una que lucho por verla y mantenerla clara: la permanencia de Jesús en el principio de mi razón y en el termino de mi acción. Vaya cosa es que te presenten, cada vez con mayor intimidad, a tu ser corrompido.

Para este fin de semana les comparto este canto, no tan nuevo en creación, pero lleno de frescura hoy día para el alma.

No conocemos el Evangelio