A touch of god

For years I have prayed for people, loved ones, friends, relatives and neighbors pleading with God for the miracle of their salvation. I have humble, religious, sullen, friendly, unfriendly, indifferent, helpful, political, apolitical, demure and outgoing neighbors. All creatures of God, all in need of God.

Unlike Europe or other regions of the world, the Caribbean, and Cuba very particularly, is a country where you get to know your neighborhood. The shortcomings and needs of a whole generation in Cuba has simultaneously generated a sense of necessary human solidarity where it is not strange that a neighbor knocks on the door to ask for help, requesting anything from an aspirin to a blood donation for the operation of a relative ( I'm not exaggerating).

I often wondered for a long time if any of them were in God's plan. I recognize that this is the trend of our own humanity: selectivity. - Ah, how good it would be if Enrique the architect knew the gospel, or Marta the hairdresser who is so helpful, or maybe Luis who is a sick man and has done so much good helping others- And so we go around the world choosing mentally to those we would like to be saved. The saddest thing is that we choose them in advance because of the good things they do or what they look like, and we put their sinful condition second. Man's problem is sin and we all need Christ.

What is the truth? The truth is that God's plan of salvation is for everyone. Everyone around you is in God's plans, without exception. Whether all will be saved or not is God's business and not ours. Christ died for all and sometimes we want to apply the power of his saving blood only to those we love, those close to us, those who, in our foolishness, we believe may be candidates to be part of the family of God according to our own rules and wishes. Pure pride. It's about God, not about me; it is the blood of the lamb that takes away the sin of the world… of the whole world.

God's touch for those around us begins with us. When we compassionately see them creatures in need of salvation and we offer a prayer of mercy crying out to the Holy Spirit to use us for his glory by preaching the word to them. Let's not ask for power, we already have it! A special anointing? What better anointing than to have been forgiven and accepted for the merits of Christ and his victory on the cross! Two words whose meaning is vital to the Christian. Anyone who has not experienced God's forgiveness and feels accepted in his mercy, adopted as a legitimate child, blessed from the heart of God, is not totally able to understand that his hands, his mind and his heart can be channels of blessing for those we would like to win.

God's touch begins in a simple smile, or an outstretched hand; it has the essential component of the anointed prayer of supernatural faith. I have seen the breakdown of murderers and I have wiped the tears of "tough" repentant ruffians, touched by the Holy Spirit of God. I have praised the Almighty along with Saulos who had their way to Damascus, scoffers of the church, being thrown to the ground by the light of His presence. You are also light and your hands can be the instruments that God is longing for to touch some heart around you.

God bless your Word!