For the world to believe

Sometimes we act as if the God we have is tiny. There is a precious praise of a Latin worshiper who, as if God himself were speaking to the listener, asks God, what image are you going to make of me if you don't know my measurements?

The first time I heard that, I remembered the many altars where I myself accommodated the gods - which I once worshiped - to the dimensions of the atrium made by human hands. I never tire of enjoying my Christ and giving him gratitude for what he did for me. Yes, our God has no measures; there is no rod, nor elbow that can measure it. He broke all the molds of human imagination and there is no exact measure to calculate his fullness. But this is not enough as a concept; you have to work tirelessly for the world to believe.

The world, which according to the Hispano-American Dictionary of the Mission, is 'the sphere of human society that brings together all the operational forces that oppose the will of God', continues its unbridled course in open defiance of power, majesty and fullness of Christ, and is reluctant to believe. Many come to churches as if they were processing offices with direct access to God to seek a solution to their problems, but when you tell them about Christ and invite them to reflect on their sin and seek a new abundant life, they blame you in your face. and they move to the next church. Many are successful and manage to solve their material problems from time to time, but they never believe; They never get to know Christ and spend their lives on pilgrimage office after office (from church to church) in search of a God whose dimensions they have already calculated in advance. Yes, I know as much as you do that the work of conviction of sins is done by the Spirit of God and not us and that the time is God's and all those cliches that we repeat over and over again, but sometimes these same arguments apparently " so pious and loaded with spirituality ”, they are erected as excuses for not collaborating with God and doing what we have to do.

For the world to believe, each of us has to play his or her role. For the world to believe, we have to love the lost and seek them out. God is too big to fit in a bottle and we are too little to try to manipulate. When Paul arrived in Corinth from Athens, he dedicated himself entirely to preaching the word and one night God told him in a vision: "Do not fear, but speak and do not be silent; because I am with you ... and I have many people in this city "(Acts 18: 9-10). Luke says that Paul stayed in Corinth for a year and six months teaching the word of God.

How to act so that those operational forces that oppose God, first believe and then seek his blessings? In Cuba, my country, moved by the many needs and shortages (material and spiritual), the church was nourished in the 90s of the last century by an incredible multitude of people who came to it requesting material help, but by the grace of God They were captivated by the beauty of their love for one another and Christian solidarity. They believed first, thanks to the diligence and wisdom of pulpits well defended by ministers filled with the Holy Spirit; then the Lord took it upon himself to add blessings from on high to the converts. The rest - maybe half - resolved their personal situations, but went out the back door and most are still without Christ.

For the world to believe:

• we have to be one: I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one (John 17:22),

• we must give testimony of living in Christ: As you, Father, are in me and I in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me (John 17:21 ),

• we must be perfect in unity (John 17:23)

• and above all things we must bear witness to the love of God (John 17:26).

We have to define ourselves as Christians within the collage (disorderly mixture) of tendencies, sectarianism, false doctrines and improvised pulpits that the so-called Protestantism of our time suffers from. As long as we don't, we make God a dwarf. The new times have given birth to a new type of "Protestant" who no longer seeks God, believing that he has already found him a long time ago and therefore behaves like an unbeliever and lives off the tale of his past glories. A theologian whose name I do not remember said: "If what you did yesterday still seems great to you, it is possible that your growth has even stopped." As it is, many people have become dwarfed. But you and I have the answer for the world to believe. Our theological definition must be accompanied by humility, sincere meekness. The world will come to believe. Our God is too big. We do not know his measurements, but at the same time so benign, so simply sublime that he decided to stay in our hearts.

God bless you!

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Song lyrics (Source: http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=1737330)

What image are you going to make me

if you don't know my measurements;

if you went to the mountains

wood would be missing.

What image are you going to make me

if you don't know my measurements;

if you made them out of stones

stones would be missing.

My ways are not your ways,

you don't think like I think,

a great mountain separates us,

your ideas and your attempts.

I am the almighty

made flesh and suffering.

You will not be able to measure me

for the greatness of my deeds.

CHORUS

You can't measure me

I am who I am.

You can't measure me

I am eternity.

You can't measure me

by the history.

You can't measure me

for one more miracle.

Not all the gold in the world

will be enough for my measurements;

I am the one who sustains the world

and sustains your life.

What image are you going to make me

if you don't know my measurements;

if the earth shakes for me

and the darkness dissipates.

What image are you going to make me

if you don't know my measurements;

I am the alpha and the omega,

I am the one who gives you life.