O Amor que a tudo supera // The Love that overcomes everything
Autor: Lukas Lemes - A space to something new | Publicado: 2011-10-09T10:23:00-07:00

Olá! Como você está? Há certo tempo não escrevo por aqui, muitas coisas, muitos projetos e certamente em breve, conseguirei escrever com mais frequência.Estive em setembro novamente no Amazonas no projeto missionário da igreja Presbiteriana de Manaus, ouvi pregações incríveis, reencontrei grandes e preciosos amigos e ainda falei com o Ronaldo Lidório, que é uma figuraça que gosto muito.Durante a viagem falamos de Jesus, glorificamos o Seu GRANDE nome e levamos o Seu Amor a lugares muito distantes em nossa nação.Nestes dias, o que tem vindo ao meu coração é o quanto O Amor de Deus é muito maior do que nossos sonhos humanos, conhecimento e noção de Quem Ele É.Apesar de amarmos a Deus de todo o nosso coração, mente e alma, somos finitos, limitados.Em determinadas situações, ansiamos tanto para ver as promessas de Deus cumpridas e finalizadas em nossas vidas que nos perdemos muitas vezes e esquecemos que Amamos a Deus e que nosso foco, nosso alvo, nossa meta, deve ser Cristo Jesus somente.O messias, Jesus, nEle sim podemos ser completos. Parafraseando John Piper: Deus é glorificado,  magnificado quando nos gloriamos nEle, quando somos alegremente satisfeitos por Ele, quando encontramos a verdadeira alegria, que só vem dEle, não no sentido de que possamos aumentar a Sua Glória dEle, porque isto é indiscutivelmente impossível mas refletimos, Sua Glória quando somos satisfeitos nEle.Muitas vezes estamos tão preocupados com coisas pequenas como por exemplo: As "bandeiras" de nossas igrejas mas tudo isto certamente passará.A minha igreja, o meu pastor, o meu modo, tudo isto é tão passageiro, tão momentâneo.Os meus olhos devem, portanto, estar em Cristo, em Sua cruz e em Sua ressurreição.Tudo isto me lembra de um pastor querido, que já se aproxima dos seus 80 anos e continua fazendo viagens missionárias para a Amazônia algumas vezes por ano.Ele diz: "Estas bandeiras com nome de igreja, isto é uma invenção de vocês, coisas da cabeça de vocês, não me importa nada disto, eu vim aqui para pregar de Cristo."Eu creio que jamais me esquecerei desta frase e é assim que Deus é! Ele supera todas a nossa finitude humana.Conhecimento humano, é importante, somos racionais, ninguém tem por objetivo de vida ser ignorante mas a questão mais importante é o Amor de Deus que alcançar vidas e como Ele nos Ama.Se este conhecimento humano ao invés de me aproximar de Cristo e levar outras pessoas em direção a Ele,tem me afastado disto, alguma coisa certamente está errada.É como diz uma música que gosto muito: "É vaidade, é correr atraz do vento"O que realmente me alegra o coração é ver uma criança com um sorriso enorme em um fim de tarde cantando "Ôba, Jesus me ama", me fazendo lembrar que o Amor de Deus a tudo supera não importando quantas barreiras os homens queiram construir, não importando o quanto os homens queiram ser achados como sábios, Deus é o mesmo ontem, hoje e para sempre e Sua Alegria está em encontrar nossos corações, receptivos, prontos para ouvir e obedecer a Sua Voz dizendo: "Vem filho amado""Portanto, também nós, uma vez que estamos rodeados por tão grande nuvem  de testemunhas, livremo-nos de tudo o que nos atrapalha e do pecado que  nos envolve, e corramos com perseverança a corrida que nos é proposta, tendo os olhos fitos em Jesus, autor e consumador da nossa fé. Ele, pela  alegria que lhe fora proposta, suportou a cruz, desprezando a vergonha,  e assentou-se à direita do trono de Deus. "Hebreus 12: 1 e 2Jesus, Ele sim é quem importa mais do que qualquer outra coisa.Seja abençoado! :-)_____________________________________________________________Hello! How are you? Haven't been writing for some time now.Many things, and certainly many projects will soon be written here.I  was back in September in the Amazon on the missionary project of the  Presbyterian church in Manaus, heard amazing preachers, met great and  precious friends and even talked to Ronaldo Lidório, whom i like to hear about going to the missionary field.During the trip we spoke about Jesus, glorifying His great name and we took His love to distant places in our nation.In These days, what has been in my heart is how God's love is far greater than our human dreams, knowledge and sense of who He is.Although we love God with all our heart, mind and soul, we are finite, limited.In  certain situations, we look forward, so hard, to see God's promises  fulfilled and completed in our lives but sometimes we get distracted by other things that we forget that our focus, our aim, our goal should be Christ and Christ  alone.The Messiah, Jesus, in Him we're made complete. To  paraphrase John Piper: God is glorified, magnified when we rejoice in  Him, when we are strongly happy in him, when we find true joy that  only comes from Him, not in the sense that we can increase His glory to  Himself, because it is arguably impossible but we reflect His glory when we are satisfied in him.We are often so worried about little things such as: The "flags" of our churches but all this certainly will fade away.My church, my pastor, my way, my resources, this is all so fleeting!My eyes must, therefore, be in Christ, in His cross and His resurrection.All  this reminds me of a dear pastor, who is already near his 80th birthday  and continues to do mission trips to the Amazon a few times each year and he  says: "These flags with name of the church, this is an invention of  you, things of your head, I do not mind any of this, I came here to  preach Christ."I believe that I will never forget this phrase and that is how God does! He surpasses all our human finitude.Human  knowledge is important, we are rational, no one's goal in life is to be  ignorant but the point is that God's love reaches lives and He loves us and if this human knowledge keep us from doing what is in the Lord's heart to be done, there's something definitely wrong in our lifestyle. It's like a song that says I love: "It's vanity, is running after the wind"What really brings joy to my heart is to see a child with a huge smile on one  evening singing "Hey, Jesus Loves Me," reminding me that God's love  overcomes the barriers  that men want to build, it doesn't matter how much the men want to be found as wise, God is the same yesterday, today  and forever, and His joy is in finding our hearts receptive, ready to  listen and obey His voice saying: "Come my beloved sonwith him I am well pleased.Mateus 3:17 in whom i am well pleased""Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,  let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily  entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of GodHebreus 12:1-2Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebreus 12:1-2Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebreus 12:1-2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the  joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God."Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebreus 12:1-2Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebreus 12:1-2Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebreus 12:1-2Therefore,  since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us  throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.  And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For  the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat  down at the right hand of the throne of God.Hebreus 12:1-2Hebrews 12: 1 and 2Jesus, He is who matters more than anything else.Be blessed! :-)