Invitation to fidelity

These are difficult times, sterile from the side of true commitment. Few commit to the transcendent if there is no evidence that commitment is accompanied by success, flamboyance, or money. Life has become an existential pilgrimage where there are no lasting motivations unless the benefits are clearly seen.

Since nothing is durable, but ephemeral, everything has an expiration date. What is today will no longer be tomorrow and therefore it is not necessary to be faithful. Love of neighbor seems ethereal, insoluble, for convenience or for the occasion. People do not want ties that marginalize them from their selfish desires and the noble soul of man and woman who from the side of humility follow Christ mourns every day because true convictions and values seem to have definitely died. Can we change the world? Not! However, we can collaborate with God to transform it. God has a Plan A to do it and there is no Plan B. Without God at the center of all things, man's recipes to improve the world remain very low in salt and lacking in good ingredients.

These days it seems that the fire no longer forges, nor the water refreshes and in the face of the false promises of security and hope offered by those who have everything and have nothing to lose, cross our arms and not lift the cross of Christ as a banner of Hope, is to play the game of relativism and the prevailing inconsistencies, dress ourselves as accomplices even with the Bible under our arms and resign ourselves to bringing flowers to the funeral where the virtue of the human being seems to lie, that is, the inclination to do good to others. others discarding everything bad.

Do we sometimes doubt that God is in control? What is God's advice for these times? What do we Christians do to give good back to what the world does wrong? What place are we giving to the mission of the church in our city? Why are there so few revivals?

Faith, fidelity, is lacking. If we don't do it, who is going to do it? All the transcendence of what we are and what we do rests on faith. God wants fidelity to his Word, fidelity for who he is, fidelity in gratitude for what he has done for us and for what he will do. Fidelity knowing our limitations, opening ourselves to the world with humility and a spirit of self-denial for what we believe; recognizing that only God can turn circumstances in his favor, trusting that the power of his Spirit is not compared to another power neither in earthly nor in heavenly regions.

If we faint as Christians before the advance of the secularization of society, we fall into a litany with no "à la carte" answers. At the banquet of life with God as refuge and hope, "the letter" - in a figurative sense - is and will always be his advisory, instructive, reliable Word. No choice. Only God's Plan A for this world. But to make a good contribution, we must also oppose garland theology and verbiage, and embrace faith in terms of loyalty and steadfastness in what we do and much more, for who we are. If the love of Christ does not move us from the seat, then we are not being consistent as the body of Christ with the Word of God, nor do we apply to be the instrument of diffusion of the virtues of his Gospel and collaborators to extend his Kingdom.

Do we want revival? Let us ask God to first enliven our faith. It is impossible to give life acting as if we were dead, or worse, giving the appearance of living with a vocation towards the neighbor in need of God and on the other hand make the decision to jump the pond to satisfy personal ambitions and serve God where He does not. he needs, nor has he called you. Faithfulness to God is life. Perseverance produces a genuine spiritual sense of service to God, where He has called you to His glory. The temptation to flee can always come, but God rewards those who remain faithful.

And to those who have focused their lives from faith, and firmly embrace the theology of hope, (contrary to the theology of garlands, “flashazos” and verbiage), - either in my country, Cuba, or in another geography of planet earth-, a reminder: Be faithful, remain, root yourself in your consistencies until death! God has not lost control!

God bless you!