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Canvas: Artist Abbadia Pessoa
The Law of the Lord is Perfect and Restores the Soul
We were born into a Christian home, being "daddy" a minister of God and defender of the laws of men, the grandfather and paternal uncles were also ministers of the gospel of Christ, the paternal aunts dedicated to music in Baptist churches, and "mommy" and the maternal aunts devote themselves to fine arts: sacred and secular. In Portugal, we had both Portuguese grandfather and great-uncle, devoted to the Vatican. At the age of fourteen (14), Missionary Pastor James Musgrave baptized us in the First Baptist Church of Goiânia (GO) (http://youtu.be/PFi14fGFxWo), where we attended until we moved to São Paulo, with him we proclaimed Jesus Christ, in diversified places, through the music and poems. We followed the teachings that we received from "daddy", Dr. José Motta dos Reis Pessoa, and from Pastor Musgrave, serving and proclaiming God through the music: sometimes in jail, sometimes in leprosarium, sometimes in hospital, theater, Academy of letters, orphanage, nursing home, elementary and secondary schools, sometimes in main city streets, sometimes in residences - serenades -, academic center, university, catholic and evangelical churches in Brazil and abroad. However, our total surrender to God came from a certainty and three doubts that we had for a long time, but that, only since February 1979 we decided to start to take objective, tough and very painful decisions regarding search for internal and external responses to our certainties and doubts. We have sought the truths that only God can give us through fasting, prayer and meditation on His Word! This eagerness of ours was backed up silentlyby the shoulders of my beloved, friends, brothers and companions: Veida Carvalho Vianna (a discernible spiritist - highly developed) and Lupércio de Souza Cortez Júnior. There has always been absolute inner certainty that God's purpose is to restore the life of every person who in Him believes. It is strong the conviction that such restoration is not only in eternal life, it begins the very moment we believe in Jesus as our God and Lord. Thus, eternal life begins in the here and now. The first of our doubts was to realize the difference in the way and intensity with which people received the healing power of God in their lives. We could find no plausible explanation for this difference, because we observed people who had deep wounds, much more than others, but still lived deep processes of healing as a whole. On the other hand, we found people with life experiences much less suffered, who had access to many opportunities of treatment of the Holy Spirit, but practically did not present any type of growth. For us, these differences were not part of God's plan, for he wishes to bless us all without distinction and without limit. Our second and third questions referred to the feelings and dedications of my ancestors: Would they be correct in embracing the entire Christian faith in its entirety? If God wants to restore our souls, and if the plan of redemption that Jesus came to bring to us affects the spirit, the soul and the body, surely the resources for this should be available to the servants of God throughout human history and in all life, in the breath of the Christian churches. However, we did not often observe love and compassion among many of them: for themselves, for each other and among ourselves. We feel that the restoration of the soul is not a current idiom - it is a truth - and that it does not depend on the technique of pastoral counseling, nor activity carried out within the church, nor the quest for sanctification, nor psychology and/or inner healing - methods that should be available to Christians of past centuries. Restoration is God's plan for all those who believe in Him in all ages of human history. What happens is that many modalities of healing techniques were shelved, and when rediscovered, they appear to be new. However, we affirm and emphasize that the techniques used must be based solely on the Word of God. It is interesting to note that obedience to God's eternal principles leads us to a lifestyle that favor the production of beneficial results to our personality and physical health, which can release God's broad healing power upon us. As we learn and apprehend, through the Gospel of God, the principle of forgiveness, we can, for example, obtain freedoms. But, if even so, our hearts remain filled with grief and resentment, it will be necessary for us to decide whether we will trust God's plan or whether we will take our own path. Now, if the hurt person, even with a broken heart, decide to obey God and take a positive stand towards the one who struck him, we are absolutely certain - from own experience (and very recently) that wound will become smaller. It will become necessary take a stand face this pain of the soul, instead of waiting for the feeling of forgiveness to come through simple obedience. Thus, we will discover that we learn to forgive in our daily, hourly and every minute, ourselves and the other - as human as us! On the other hand, we can see people who insistently relapse into intensely humiliating the same person over the years - changing only the ways used for their sad behavior. But here we are dealing with a case quite different from the one just mentioned. Still, we can read the Bible telling us that we will reap all that we sow, and be assured that this harvest also refers to the inner self of both: who caused the hurt and the hurt person. (try to change paths – sparing both - if the aggressive phenomenon is difficult to circumvent, for example). By submitting ourselves to the eternal principles of God we are sowing, in our personality and in the others, the blessings that flow from that conscious obedience. To appease human suffering is a reality and a must at hand! Let us try to reconcile tenderness and naivety in ourselves, which we all internally have - for the child is there, within each one of us. Let us reconcile our convictions, our firmness, our sensibilities, our theoretical rigors of life and artistic without ever losing our tenderness.
“Hay
que endurecerse, pero sin perder la ternura jamás.”Ernesto Che
Guevara São Paulo, 21.V.2014
Clique na figura e
Música: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at
Temple Square perform composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by
Oscar
Hammerstein II and arranged by Arthur Harris. www.olharuniversal.com.br/thelaw/You-ll-Never-Walk-Alone_Mormon-Tabernacle-Choir.wav
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por Vera Helena
Pessoa
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