Intermediaries

A few days ago, I received an email from "Elena" asking me to contact "Laura" to find out about the health of a sick relative. Laura has email, just as I do, yet I had to serve as an intermediary between two people who are also related by blood

, but because of the things that happen in the lives of people who do not have Christ, Elena has been mistreated and humiliated by Laura—and, worst of all, over petty material interests. Perhaps Laura does this unconsciously, or simply because she does not give Elena’s feelings the importance that God gives to all his children’s needs, both physical and spiritual.

Laura is an idolater. When faced with life’s situations, she turns to any abomination, even though she has been told about the word of God many times. Yet she could not understand why Elena did not contact her directly and used me as an intermediary when they both had email and were family.

We children of God, who know him intimately and love him above all things, also find it hard to understand why, when the solution to our problems and relief from our burdens are within reach through prayer, we insist on using intermediaries who only delay the message and prevent it from reaching the only one who can help us.

Thus, before seeking God in prayer and telling him of our concerns and suffering, we turn to a person lacking good sense and discernment, who often, instead of helping us solve our problems, draws us deeper into them.

In the same way, those who do not know God seek him in a piece of wood, stone, or inert metal. Jesus Christ tells us: “I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me. If you knew me, you would know my Father too; and from now on you know him and have seen him.” John 14.

The names in this story are fictitious; they could be any of ours. But the story is real and happens in different ways every day. Learn to face your giant with the living God by your side, and you will always bring it down