Is there something impossible for God?

Sin uproots the human being, annihilates him in life, locks him up in the prison of folly and in the stubbornness of the fight for nothing. Believing he is taking life like a bull by the horns and aspiring to defeat it with the forces of desires for success and fanfare, man walks towards his own destruction , towards eternal death. The stubbornness in making sin an addiction leads him to a dead end. Man, even holding paper titles and awards, continues to be ignorant of the divine. We are not qualified by God to judge such ignorance. Before making a judgment that is not ours, we must love them. Isn't that what the first commandment that Jesus left us says? God has not given us permission to judge our neighbor, but rather gave us a command that we seldom apply to our own lives: to love our neighbor as ourselves.

There is an old adage that says "a tree that is born crooked never straightens its trunk." As if there was something impossible for God! Those who believe such things do not know the power of the Holy Spirit, they have not experienced in their own flesh or that of others, the indescribable abundance of God's grace.

Yes, brother Jeremiah, the Ethiopian of these times can change his spiritual skin when he is reconciled with God. Christ bleaches men with his holiness, clothes them clean, whitens the blackness of the heart obsessed by sin, bathes them with the grace of his springs of mercy and straightens their crooked roots of iniquity. How many times have we ignored the power of God condemning a person by denying him the right to hear the gospel from our lips? How many times have we become judges and have assumed that "the trees that were born crooked" will never be receptive to the message of salvation? Christ is irresistible and we have proof of it.

God can change the skin of the Ethiopian, He has the power to make a new creature out of nothing. Christ is much more than Lord and Savior. He is life and He imparts it so that we can live it with Him. I have seen many Ethiopians (and leopards) reputed to have hardened hearts - poets, “snake charmers”, military men, teachers, doctors and even “doctors of the law. "Of our day - broken by the power of the gospel, crying out for God's mercy on their lives. That is the grace of God that looks at man in his sinful condition humbled by the action of the Holy Spirit, who regenerates repentant hearts. On the cross there is enough room to mend hearts (find comfort) and a graceful workshop to make them new.

Is there an Ethiopian in your family who has not surrendered to the Lord so that he can change his skin and make him a new creature? How many leopards do you know who prefer to keep displaying their spots, strutting proudly of their sins and do not decide to take a step of faith by giving themselves to Christ? Surely you are thinking about some of them now, an opportunity that you have to entrust them, at this very moment, to the saving grace of our Lord? For Him there are no Ethiopians or leopards who can resist the call to surrender their souls, mind, will and feelings.

Christ is not only able to straighten the trunks that were born crooked or that disorderly life twisted along the way, but he makes new trees. I was a crooked log as there are so many and also my natural skin is like that of the Ethiopians, but the Lord attracted me with threads of love, and although I am still very far from the goal, he gave a new color to my soul and me has made me aware that to live in Christ, I must allow Him to live His life through me. I am in that attempt and I invite you to meditate on it with Christ in your gaze, the only one who can lead you to the cross so that your old sinful man may die forever. There on the cross there are new cisterns of fresh waters of eternal life that will not only change your Ethiopian skin, but will crown your dedication with its blessings. Talk to the Ethiopian next to you, love him as you love yourself!

God bless you!