En este capítulo podemos ver que el trabajo del misionero tiene los elementos que mencionamos anteriormente, al igual que otros que los complementan. Hay seis elementos que podemos identificar en este pasaje que aplican a nosotros como misioneros.
I had a hard time getting into it at first, the idea of “imagination” or reimagining (each chapter has this idea) in the Lord’s Prayer didn’t sit well. It sounded more like a fantasy, and the Lord’s Prayer like magic. But I persevered through the first chapters that in my opinion stretch the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer. I finished it and I can say that there is some good content to explain the Lord’s Prayer. At the end Marotta says that the Lord’s Prayer is about living it out and when we do we subversively bring in the kingdom of God (a theme word throughout).
The missing part is how it’s done in practice. Marotta (an Anglican priest) believes it’s liturgical and this if done will stir imagination as we make it part of our lives. I pray this prayer often in the context of the my whole time before the Lord (which includes thanking, confession, Scriptural prayers and reading/praying the Psalms). It does help me align my will to his will. It is the scaffolding that I need as I pray. Not always do I get to the 4th petition because I get caught up with the first three.
I do recommend the book though. Worth the time. The last chapter which deals with the doxology was the best for me and not because I was done. It has some good thoughts of our power as believers.
Cuando comencé mi vida como seguidor de Cristo, Salmos y Proverbios fueron mi lectura diaria durante varios años. Escribí mucho sobre lo que observé en ellos. Recientemente, he decidido volver y leerlos usando el diario de versiones de ESV y los diarios NET Abide. Además de esto, estoy usando Salmos por el Día que ofrece una traducción útil. También puse un salmo para leer cada día en Prayermate que uso para orar diariamente. El punto es poder orar / aplicar los Salmos a mi vida. Ha sido muy nutritivo ya que he comenzado a hacer esto. El rey David, que escribió muchos de los Salmos, expresa a Dios su ira, miedo, quebrantamiento, depresión, ansiedad, alegría, paz, etc.
No siempre soy capaz de escribir reflexiones que Dios trae en el texto para enseñarme, ni tengo la intención de poner todo aquí. Pero algunos son demasiado buenos para dejarlos en papel. Aquí hay uno sobre el Salmo 68.
A Dios le importa lo que nos sucede. Aunque este salmo es acerca de la liberación de Israel y la entrada en la Tierra Prometida, hay mucho para nosotros. Muestra cómo Dios cuida de las personas. Un hecho “sorprendente” es que Dios se preocupa por los huérfanos. Él es un padre para ellos. Este ha sido mi caso. Nunca tuve un padre, un terrenal, quiero decir. Lo conocía pero nos abandonó. Pero Dios ha sido mi padre. Estoy agradecido de que Dios se preocupe por esto, ciertamente me importa, y ha afectado mi vida. Dios también se convierte en un protector de las viudas. En relación con los padres, las mujeres cuyos maridos han muerto pueden encontrar protección en Dios. Nuestro santo Dios se preocupa, esto es lo que Él es. ¡Qué equivocados estamos cuando pensamos que Dios no está interesado en nuestras vidas
Dios se preocupa por las cosas que nos preocupan y por nuestras experiencias. Él lleva nuestras cargas; Él es nuestra salvación (v.19). La Biblia NET dice: “Día tras día lleva nuestra carga, el Dios que nos libera… el Señor, el Señor Soberano, puede rescatar de la muerte”. (vv. 18 19-20).
Dios se preocupa por nosotros y nos da su poder y fuerza. No podemos enfrentar la vida por nuestra cuenta. Necesitamos su poder y fuerza. Él puede hacer esto literalmente. Él lo comparte con nosotros. ¡Merece alabanza por esto!
When I started my life as a follower of Christ, Psalms and Proverbs were my daily reading for several years. I wrote a lot about what I observed in them. Recently, I’ve decided to go back and read them using the ESV version journal and the NET Abide Journal. In addition to this, I am using Psalms by the Day which offers a helpful translation. I also put a psalm to read each day in Prayermate which I use to pray daily. The whole point is to be able to pray/apply the Psalms to my life. It’s been very nourishing as I have began doing this. Psalms express raw emotions and feelings that we often think are not right to express to God. But it isn’t so. King David who wrote many of the Psalms expresses to God his anger, fear, brokenness, depression, anxiety, joy, peace, etc…
I am not always able to write reflections that God brings forth in the text to teach me, nor do I intend to put all here. But some are too good to leave on paper. Here is one on Psalm 68.
God cares what happens to us. Even though this psalm is about Israel’s deliverance and entrance into the Promised Land, there’s a lot for us. It shows how God cares for people. One “surprising” fact is that God cares for the fatherless. He is a father for them. This has been my case. I never had a father, an earthly I mean. I knew him but he abandoned us. But God has been my father. I’m thankful that God cares about this, certainly I care, and it has affected my life. God also becomes a protector of widows. Related to fathers, women whose husbands have died can find protection in God. Our holy God cares, this is who He is. How wrong we are when we think God isn’t interested in our lives.
God cares about the things that trouble us and about our experiences. He carries our burdens, he is our salvation (v. 19). The NET Bible says, “Day after day he carries our burden, the God who delivers us… the Lord, the Sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.” (vv. 18 19-20).
God cares about us and gives us his power and strength. We can’t face life on our own. We need his power and strength. He shares it with us. He can do this literally. He deserves praise because of this!
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¿Cómo hacerles frente a estas situaciones difíciles? En el pasaje de hoy miramos que a pesar de que la iglesia, los cristianos ya habían gozado de un tiempo sin ser perseguidos por su fe, esto no fue el caso con algunos de ellos. Durante la persecución instigada por Saulo o Pablo, toda la iglesia había huido excepto los apóstoles. Ellos se quedaron en Jerusalén. Pero no fue todo bien para todos, especialmente para Jacobo y Pedro.
En este pasaje miramos como Dios nos da su seguridad en medio de tiempos difíciles cualesquiera que sean, y de cualquier tamaño.
El Señor ha comenzado a formar una iglesia multiétnica y multilingüe. Pero esto es el comienzo. La tarea de llevar el evangelio no es solo a los de aquí y el condado que necesitan escuchar y reescuchar hasta que Dios les toque y les traiga a sus pies (como hay algunos de Uds. en esta mañana que todavía están resistiendo el llamado de salvación) sino hasta lo último de la tierra.
¿Cómo nació (y creció) el “cristianismo” (el movimiento de cristianos que llevan el mensaje de salvación a todo lugar donde van) o la iglesia fuera de los confines del judaísmo y se amplió a otros grupos étnicos? ¿Qué nos enseña a nosotros en nuestra labor como mensajeros de Cristo? ¿Qué nos enseña como iglesia aquí?
Lo que este pasaje nos enseña es que el evangelio es para todos sin importar el trasfondo étnico, cultural o lingüístico. Todos necesitan escuchar las buenas noticias de salvación. Pedro, como el líder que el Señor escogió para ayudar a fundar la iglesia, recibe una misión del Señor de una manera extraordinaria. Esta misión envuelve a un centurión romano a quien Dios se le ha manifestado para que pueda escuchar, recibir y creer en el evangelio. Esto abrirá las puertas del evangelio a todos sin importar el trasfondo étnico, cultural o lingüístico.
As a deer[c] longs[d] for streams of water, so I long[e] for you, O God! 2 I thirst[f] for God, for the living God. I say,[g] “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”[h] 3 I cannot eat; I weep day and night.[i] All day long they say to me,[j] “Where is your God?” 4 I will remember and weep.[k] For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.[l] 5 Why are you depressed,[m] O my soul?[n] Why are you upset?[o]Wait[p] for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.[q] – NET Bible
The Bible isn’t a fairy tale book. It’s a book about real life. In it, especially Psalms, we have strong emotions, raw feelings expressed to God. God has feelings, strong feelings and so do we. Some of our feelings or emotions go beyond what should be, but we know this isn’t normal. Our lives are lived in an unperfected state of being. But we are not hopeless. Twice here (42:5,43:5) the psalmist tells himself “Hope in God”. He desires God as a deer pants for water. It is amid depression. He is flooding his bed with tears. What’s the cause? he is being oppressed, persecuted by people. They mock his him saying “Where is your God?” He pours out his heart to God. He recalls the good moments that he has had with Him and God’s people. He is confident he will “again praise him”. During the day he sees God’s loyal love coming. In the evening he prays with a song to the God of his life. But he also questions him about his presence and why he has forgotten him in this moment. Yet he reminds his soul (telling himself out loud) that he needs to hope in God. He is confident he will get out of this. He will again “praise Him”, his salvation and his God.
Here is a model for us in those moments when we are cast down or depressed. We must speak to ourselves the truth. In these moments our desire for God should be stronger and real. We can express our raw feelings and emotions to Him. Our songs (we have plenty to choose from as opposed to writing our own) and prayers should be more not less.
Jesús le dijo a Pedro que le daría las llaves del reino (Mateo 16:19). Esto significaba que Pedro sería una persona clave en el establecimiento de la iglesia de Cristo. Fue Pedro quien predicó a los judíos en Pentecostés en Hechos 2 y quien confirmó a los samaritanos en Hechos 8 como parte de la iglesia.
En este pasaje lo encontramos tratando con tres personas específicas: Eneas, Dorcas y Cornelio. Este último es muy significativo ya que trata por primera vez de los gentiles que reciben el Evangelio. Ahora la iglesia será establecida y Pedro no será más la figura clave en el libro de los Hechos.
Death of friends often makes us think on life’s temporary nature. As I was running this morning, I reflected on how fragile and temporary life is in our current “fallen state” (referring to the first man Adam through whom death came). Paul used the metaphor of a tent to refer to the temporary nature of our bodies: “For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.” (NLT) – 2 Cor. 5:1
Our bodies have a tent that holds the immaterial (the essence) part of our being. It is hard for us to conceive it because we can’t see it. Of course, some believe the body is all there is, and when we die, we (our whole being) dies with it. But this is too hard to believe. Even as a child, I had a hard time believing this. Yet as believers in Christ (who said he was the resurrection and the life and those that believed in him, even if they were dead physically, they would still live), we know that when we leave these bodies, we (our immaterial being) will be at home with the Lord. (2 Cor. 5:8[1]) This is still hard for us to comprehend because we haven’t seen heaven. We are earthly creatures created from “Adamah” the Hebrew word where the word “Adam” comes from which means earth or read earth. Earth is the only environment we have experienced. As we age our bodies grow weaker and they groan. They desire not to die but to put on a new type of body, a heavenly body.[2] Knowing this does not make it easier as we face our departure from this earth because we leave behind people we care about. That’s hard for them because we are part of their lives. The divide of earthly and heavenly will someday be removed and we will get a new body (1 Corinthians 15:43-44)[3]. In the meantime, our goal is to please Him (2 Cor. 5:9).
[1] “We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord”
[2] 2 Cor. 5:2-4: “We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.” (NLT)
[3] “Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.” (NLT)
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