Dear Community!
The following biblical verses, they made me think!
Enlarge the place of your tent, and the curtains of your rooms be extended; do not be sparse; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. Because you will spread to the right hand and the left hand; and your descendants will inherit nations, and will inhabit the devastated cities.
Isaiah 54: 2-3
While meditating on that text, the following question came to my mind: "Do you know why many have stopped living the fullness of their calling and the purpose for their lives?"
"Because they are afraid, afraid to take the necessary steps to follow the guidelines they have received in the spirit."
Can you imagine the dimension of this truth?
How many churches did not start in different cities and nations because those who were called by God are afraid to obey?
How many people lost being big businessmen because they were afraid to invest?
How many books have not been written or are they stored on computers because their writers are afraid of failing and not selling their publications?
How many crusades never came out of the evangelists' dreams because they are still afraid of not achieving them?
These and many more questions, arise as a reflection today, for us the parishioners of the first Church of Blockchain (
We do not have excuses to feel fear, because "in love there is no fear, on the contrary perfect love expels fear" (1 John 4: 18a), and we have plenty of love, "because God poured out his love in our hearts, through the Holy Spirit who has given us "(Romans 5: 5).
God is the most interested in the success of our lives and ministries. However, the main author in our history is ourselves!
God spoke to a people saying that they would expand the territory, because the growth of the families was approaching, this expansion would result in higher levels of comfort for all.
We are in the time of God's grace, we must expand knowledge, put the imagination to work, limitations are in the minds of people, and this prevents them from moving forward in life.
Those of us who live here in the chain of blocks, we must leave the routine and take a step of expansion, widening and firmness.
"You will extend to the right and to the left" but, if you look at the verse, the prophet Isaiah first said "enlarge, stretch, stretch, sign ..." (Isaiah 54: 2).
And, who is responsible for those actions? God or us? It is certainly us!
Leviticus 6: 12: "The fire will always burn on the altar, it will not be extinguished, but the priest will light wood in it every morning." God said that the fire was always burning on the altar, but for that to happen, the priest should do something: put new firewood every morning.
The more we neglect and flee from our call, the more we place sand on the flame. Even the biggest forest fires go out when there is nothing else to burn. To keep our gift alive and its flame burning, we need to put a new firewood every day!
