Peace be with you.
Sometimes we are tempted to believe that any work progresses to the extent that more success-material or any human nature-and we ome & # XF1; masters believe that God blesses us in so far as to increase our welfare. So, thinking about this, I ended up finding the website of a well-known evangelical pastor, in the narrated the experiences of an event called "Night of Glory": miracles healings and deliverances. At first I was skeptical, then amazed and then sad ending. Thousands of people in that stadium looking for a God "pharmacy." Everyone goes looking for his own good and if they get close to God is asking for your help to get out of this or that problem. Almost no one comes to God to worship, to give the glory he deserves, in other words, to acknowledge him as God and creator. Almost nobody. And if given is for who then asked something in return. All this becomes selfish big business where God is reduced to a seller that must be addressed either balcony or erase us, "we go.
But grace can not be measured by material wealth we have, because if so, Jesus would have been the most unfortunate of all. Born in a stable among animals, lived poor and, though King of the Universe, he worked as a carpenter to earn their daily bread, when it began ; his public ministry many did not understand, accused him of acting with the power of the devil and adversely affect the people, finally ended up being killed in the worst and most humiliating form then known . And to think that in baptism God the Father said of him that was "his beloved son, the beloved" (Mt 3.17). I do not think is wrong.
The grace of God is measured by union with Him The most blessed, the more prosperous, the most loved, the happier ... is the friend of God, even if a homeless collector cans. The union with its creator makes a man truly worthy and full. In vain he strives to seek fame and honor if the order and dessert-as my mother is not joined to God. I am better and happier, I am more human and child of God if I joined him "Without me nothing can be "(Jn 15.5) says the Lord. I can have a thousand problems, a thousand disappointments, but I am united with God nothing will undermine the strength of my life as if God is "the strength of my life, whose I be afraid? "(Ps 27.1).
God bless you even in adversity. Bless you and I care even though everything is falling apart. Not because things were very difficult means that God has abandoned you. On the contrary, that's when you are closer. We think you'll find peace in a cozy chapel but we missed the opportunity to meet also in the heat of battle, in tears of disappointment, in repentance of any error in the ashes of failure or patience with the shortcomings of others. Remember that our salvation was born of the greatest moral evil of the story: the death of the Son of God and perhaps the greatest grace of your life you find in the worst pain you can experience.
In the above, do not have nothing but union with God. Suffering is suffering away from God in vain, but a suffering that is experienced with God's redemptive suffering, suffering truly liberating. If you ever wanted to release you or heal you of something, possibly the suffering of Ran always be the remedy you need. Have you thought? Because what counts is not the prosperity of peace, but union with God.
May God bless you.
