Martes 13 de Marzo del 2018
\nLamentaciones 3-5 | Hebreos 10:19-39
\nY no contrist\u00e9is al Esp\u00edritu Santo de Dios, con el cual fuisteis sellados para el d\u00eda de la redenci\u00f3n. \u2013 Efesios 4:30<\/p>\n
Es posible haber sido sellados por el Esp\u00edritu Santo y sin embargo continuar consintiendo cosas en nuestra vida que lo contristan. Contristar significa infligir o experimentar intenso duelo o profunda tristeza. El duelo es una combinaci\u00f3n \u00fanica de emociones tanto positivas como negativas. La ira y la decepci\u00f3n est\u00e1n involucradas en el duelo, pero tambi\u00e9n lo est\u00e1n el amor y la gratitud. Contristar o experimentar duelo hacen referencia a una mezcla de amor con ira. Leemos en G\u00e9nesis 6:6 \u201cY se arrepinti\u00f3 Jehov\u00e1 de haber hecho hombre en la tierra, y le doli\u00f3 en su coraz\u00f3n.\u201d Lo anterior nos indica que Dios tiene emociones. Es una revelaci\u00f3n que \u00c9l hace de S\u00ed mismo. Dios tambi\u00e9n se contrista y le duele Su coraz\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
\u00bfQu\u00e9 contrista a Dios? En Efesios 4:26-27 Pablo dice, \u201cAiraos, pero no pequ\u00e9is; no se ponga el sol sobre vuestro enojo, ni deis lugar al diablo.\u201d La ira nos lleva al pecado, ya que se convierte en amargura, y la amargura es ira que ha sido almacenada en nuestro interior y ha envenenado nuestro coraz\u00f3n. En referencia a las cosas que causan la ira de Dios, hay que entender que existen cosas que puede contristar al Esp\u00edritu Santo y no causar ira en nosotros. Todas las cosas de Dios son virtud, incluyendo la ira. Eso no significa que haya algo mal con Dios, sino que hay algo mal con nosotros, cuando no tenemos esa ira justa acerca de las cosas que causan la ira de Dios, tales como la injusticia, la opresi\u00f3n, la avaricia y la deshonestidad.<\/p>\n
Pablo se\u00f1ala que el enojo, la calumnia, las peleas y la malicia tambi\u00e9n contristan al Esp\u00edritu Santo (Efesios 4:31). Igualmente hace referencia a la falsedad y nos dice que debemos despojarnos de nuestro viejo hombre, el cual est\u00e1 viciado conforme a los deseos enga\u00f1osos. Si no somos honestos con los dem\u00e1s, es porque no hemos sido honestos con nosotros mismos. Cuando nos escondemos detr\u00e1s de la mentira y la falsedad, es porque nos falta la humildad y\/o el valor de ser honestos. Isa\u00edas 28:15 dice: \u201c\u2026.porque hemos puesto nuestro refugio en la mentira, y en la falsedad nos esconderemos.\u201d En este cap\u00edtulo, Isa\u00edas revela que la venida de Dios mismo ser\u00e1, a manera de una inundaci\u00f3n en nuestras vidas, quien lavar\u00e1 la falsedad y la mentira de nosotros.<\/p>\n
Si contristamos al Esp\u00edritu Santo, Su presencia en nosotros se nubla, Su poder disminuye y Su bendici\u00f3n se ausenta. Consecuentemente, nuestra vida cristiana dejar\u00e1 de ser experiencial y se convertir\u00e1 en una vida aburrida y seca. \u00bfEstamos contristando al Esp\u00edritu Santo? \u00bfExiste alguna barrera en nosotros que le impide a \u00c9l obrar con completa libertad? Si nuestra vida cristiana no est\u00e1 avanzando y nos sentimos desmotivados, entonces debemos confesar aquello que sabemos en nuestro coraz\u00f3n que est\u00e1 contristando al Esp\u00edritu Santo. Oremos para que en la fortaleza de Cristo, podamos derribar las barreras, permiti\u00e9ndole al Esp\u00edritu Santo la libertad completa de hacer todo lo que \u00c9l tenga que hacer en nuestras vidas.
\nORACI\u00d3N: Amado Se\u00f1or Te pido que me concedas Tu fortaleza para superar las barreras que puedan estar contristando al Esp\u00edritu Santo en mi vida. Gracias, Se\u00f1or.
\nPARA REFLEXIONAR: \u00bfDe qu\u00e9 manera podr\u00eda yo estar contristando al Esp\u00edritu Santo?<\/p>\n
SADDENING the HOLY SPIRIT
\nTuesday March 13th 2018
\nLamentations 3-5 Hebrews 10:19-39
\nAnd not sadden to the Holy Spirit of God, the one that you went with sealed for the day of the redemption. \u2013 Ephesians 4:30<\/p>\n
It is possible to have been sealed by the Holy Spirit and however continuing consenting things in our life that they sadden you. Saddening signifies inflicting or experiencing intense mourning or deep sadness. Mourning is an only combination of emotions as much positive like refusals. Anger and the disappointment are involved in mourning, but also are it love and gratitude. Saddening or experiencing mourning make reference to a mix of love irefully. 6:6 read in Genesis \u201c AND Jehovah of having made man in the land, repented and he felt pain in their heart.\u201d The above indicates to us that God has emotions. It is a revelation that he does of himself. God also becomes sad and he has pain in His heart.<\/p>\n
What saddens God? In Ephesians 4:26-27 Pablo says, \u201c Get Angry, but do not sin; Do not put on the sun on your anger, neither give place to the Devil.\u201d Anger carries our sin, since he becomes bitterness, and bitterness is anger that has been kept in our inside and that has poisoned our heart. In regard to the things that cause God’s anger, it is necessary to understand that are things that can sadden the Holy Spirit and not causing anger in us. All things of God are virtue, including anger. That’s not to say that there is something badly with God, but there is something badly with us, when we do not have that fair anger about the things that cause God’s anger, such like injustice, the oppression, the avarice and the dishonesty.<\/p>\n
Pablo points out that the anger, slander, fights and malice also sadden the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:31). Equally he makes reference to falseness and he tells us that we should strip ourselves of our old man, which is corrupt conform the delusive desire. If we are not honest with the other ones, it is because we have not been honest with ourselves. When we hide behind the lie and falseness, it is because we have not enough humility and or the value of being honest. Isaiah 28:15 says: \u201c\u2026.Because we have put our refuge in the lie, and in falseness we will hide.\u201d In this chapter, Isaiah reveals that God’s coming himself will be, by way of a flooding in our lives, who will wash the lie and our lie.<\/p>\n
If we sadden the Holy Spirit, Your presence in us becomes blurred, Your power diminishes and Your blessing absents himself. Logically, our Christian life will stop being experiential and it will become a boring and dry life. Are we saddening the Holy Spirit? Is there any barriers in us that handicaps him to act with complete freedom? If our Christian life is not advancing and we felt discouraged, then we should confess that that we know in our heart that is saddening the Holy Spirit. Let’s pray in order that in the strength of Christ, may knock down the barriers, allowing the complete freedom to to act as what he has to make in our lives the Holy Spirit.
\nPRAYER: Beloved Lord I Request to you that you concede me Tu strength to surpass the barriers that can be saddening the Holy Spirit in my life. Thank you, Sir.
\nIN ORDER TO REFLECT: How would I be saddening the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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