God is always faithful
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: The world has made an idolatry of the visual, with images and symbols replacing true spiritual connection. Christians must remember the teachings of Job, who humbled himself before God and acknowledged his own ignorance. Rather than complain and demand understanding, we must seek God with our hearts and through prayer. We believe by faith, not by what we see, and must glorify God for His presence in our lives.
Today's world has made a conscious idolatry of "the visual." We are full of symbols that compete with the most intimate and pure thoughts and feelings of the human being. Man has made images and symbols as references so as not to get lost in the tortuous path of the daily frenzy with which he lives, in a world intensely poor in spirit and marginalized in his own anguish. Seeing is believing, humanists say.
The subtleties and worldly philosophies that man has invented to justify his own spiritual deficiencies, have become symbols, icons, images of a reality that overflows "through the eyes" and is specified in what only they can see to connect with the real world. What is seen does not exactly have to be linked to the heart. It is, according to the dictates of this world, the only thing that exists. The visual, what can be achieved with sight and understood with reason, is today one of the great barriers that Christians and the church of Christ have to present the unique and irreplaceable gospel of our Redeemer.
The book of Job is full of teachings for today's Christian and clear warnings for the materialistic and ungodly world. Job, in the most terrible ordeal of suffering, complained before God and spoke to him and accused him of being an insensitive and indifferent God in the face of wickedness and wickedness.
His suffering led him to act in an ungodly way. Do you know, dear brother and sister that impiety is living as if God did not exist? God convinced Job of his ignorance by reminding him: Where were you when I founded the earth? Let me know if you have intelligence (Job 38: 4). God knew of Job's faith and understood that his mistakes, in judging him as unjust for having caused him unparalleled and undeserved suffering, were due to his lack of knowledge, his inability to understand His divine designs and the magnificence and power of a sovereign God who does things for eternal purposes even though we cannot understand it.
This is how we are, we love God but sometimes we fall into the sea of impiety; It is not that we lack or fail our faith in a God who loves us equally with eternal love, but rather that in our ignorance we demand that God reveal himself to us when we only dedicate a few minutes a day for intimacy and prayer. And here is the difference between Job and us. Job prayed, humbled himself, acknowledged his ignorance and it was then that the King of glory revealed himself to him with all his power, restoring all that he had lost and giving him much more. Job's humble and victorious statement: By hearsay I knew you, but now my eyes see you (Job 42: 5) is an exaltation of the Most High God who deserves all the glory of his children and of all his creation. Let's imitate Job. He did not see God physically, but felt and experienced His presence through His word. He saw it in his heart and felt renewed and forgiven despite the suffering to which he was subjected and the injuries he raised against the Most High. Do not complain to God, seek Him with your heart and shorten your fervent prayer. The world continues to look for icons and symbols to believe, but we believe by faith in those who did not notice our sins to lead us to his admirable light, a light that we can “see”, praise and glorify.
God bless you!
The subtleties and worldly philosophies that man has invented to justify his own spiritual deficiencies, have become symbols, icons, images of a reality that overflows "through the eyes" and is specified in what only they can see to connect with the real world. What is seen does not exactly have to be linked to the heart. It is, according to the dictates of this world, the only thing that exists. The visual, what can be achieved with sight and understood with reason, is today one of the great barriers that Christians and the church of Christ have to present the unique and irreplaceable gospel of our Redeemer.
The book of Job is full of teachings for today's Christian and clear warnings for the materialistic and ungodly world. Job, in the most terrible ordeal of suffering, complained before God and spoke to him and accused him of being an insensitive and indifferent God in the face of wickedness and wickedness.
His suffering led him to act in an ungodly way. Do you know, dear brother and sister that impiety is living as if God did not exist? God convinced Job of his ignorance by reminding him: Where were you when I founded the earth? Let me know if you have intelligence (Job 38: 4). God knew of Job's faith and understood that his mistakes, in judging him as unjust for having caused him unparalleled and undeserved suffering, were due to his lack of knowledge, his inability to understand His divine designs and the magnificence and power of a sovereign God who does things for eternal purposes even though we cannot understand it.
This is how we are, we love God but sometimes we fall into the sea of impiety; It is not that we lack or fail our faith in a God who loves us equally with eternal love, but rather that in our ignorance we demand that God reveal himself to us when we only dedicate a few minutes a day for intimacy and prayer. And here is the difference between Job and us. Job prayed, humbled himself, acknowledged his ignorance and it was then that the King of glory revealed himself to him with all his power, restoring all that he had lost and giving him much more. Job's humble and victorious statement: By hearsay I knew you, but now my eyes see you (Job 42: 5) is an exaltation of the Most High God who deserves all the glory of his children and of all his creation. Let's imitate Job. He did not see God physically, but felt and experienced His presence through His word. He saw it in his heart and felt renewed and forgiven despite the suffering to which he was subjected and the injuries he raised against the Most High. Do not complain to God, seek Him with your heart and shorten your fervent prayer. The world continues to look for icons and symbols to believe, but we believe by faith in those who did not notice our sins to lead us to his admirable light, a light that we can “see”, praise and glorify.
God bless you!
