A NEW LIFE

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After so many ups and downs through which the human being passes, there comes a time when it is necessary to be born again, something like, make borron and new account. Taking into account that we are many who say that we are Christians or that we are doing God's will, it seems important to know who God is and what his will is.

The first thing a person has to do to have a new life is to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, repent of their sins and do the conversion. That implies a separation from sin and putting life in the hands of God to begin to do his will. If the life of sin remains in the past and we now live justly and godly as the word of God indicates, then we can call ourselves Christians.

For such purposes we go through a process of learning (which we can say, it never ends), it is important to know the doctrinal points of the Christian church (not of any church that is called Christian, but of one that really is). All this implies the sacrifice of no longer living for ourselves, now we live for God.

The Christian life is a life of consecration to our creator, it implies going through all that process of sanctification without which nobody can see God. Knowing also that faith without works is dead, every Christian needs to perform the works of faith that the Lord demands in order to be able to say (and be right) that he is a Christian.

A Christian person must have well-defined priorities in life. By experience (that's what I learned in my congregation and it's what I believe and have as sound doctrine), first God, then the family and finally the church! Regarding this concept, there is great confusion because the great majority of "Christians" believe that the church is first and that we put God first.

Continuing with the theme, many of us forget about the family and leave the family for the church. The truth is that leaving father and mother and even children for the church is not the same as doing it for God. God wants you as his representative in your family and even though the church is called of God, God will never be the same as the church (be it the group of people that form it or the temple where they congregate).

The first priority of a Christian is God and must always be subject to the will of God and that means representing him worthily wherever we are and telling others of his greatness, of his love. We have to take his message to those who need it and never be afraid to preach his word.

The second priority is the family: we should not allow the faith of the family to stop because of a bad example that we give them, it is important to know that if we are the only Christians in the home, we are the priest that God has established in that house and therefore we must live up to the situation.

Remember that the time of God is everything, at work, at home, in every place and that your best way of preaching is with your testimony. I make the clarification because the time of the family, it is also time that is dedicated to God. Dedicate time for the building of your home and that way you will also be fulfilling God. The first ministry that God gives us when we turn to him is the family.

The third priority is the congregation: we know that the word of God, the bible says that we must not stop assembling. In addition to that we must fulfill our responsibilities within a Christian congregation, but that is not an excuse to neglect and lose your family, if so, you may also be losing your place in the eyes of God.

Some time ago when I began my walk hand in hand with Christ, for lack of maturity and lack of knowledge suffered a spiritual divorce, ie a separation marriage, the word of God teaches us that the wise woman builds her house but the fool with his hands he destroys it (proverbs 14: 1) we know that God called us to be free from all oppression and all slavery, as we also know that marriage was constituted by God to form the family under Christocentric principles and that the family can serve to God and have a full life full of love, joy, prosperity, but God also speaks of unequal yokes in 2 Corinthians 6:14: "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship has righteousness with injustice? And what communion has light with darkness?"

This often happens to people very often that they unite with unequal yokes in marriage, that is to say with people who do not have the same vision as the other, either for lack of knowledge, for emotionalism or for disobedience, all of them together sooner late what they are going to trigger a divorce or separation because of a bad coexistence full of vices and mistakes, adultery, fornication with that person, but let me tell you that only for adultery God allows a letter of divorce, but if the other he repents of his evil ways and the other person decides to forgive him. God helps them to restore their home, their lives and their marriage relationship.

In my case, finally after several years of separation, God worked the miracle of procreating a male child after 16 years of sterility, to join my husband in our home with our son, my husband has understood little by little what it is to walk with Christ, has begun to visit the church, God is restoring our lives and our marriage for the love of our son Isaac, for love of us and for love of himself.

God keeps his promises, God does not forget anything of what he has promised us because he is not a man to lie or a son of man not to fulfill. He has thoughts of good and not evil for his children. He will fulfill his purpose in you. This issue of marriage, divorce and marriage restoration is a very complicated issue, so in another chapter and another opportunity to touch this topic again. My case was not easy, I had to pray a lot, make mistakes, lose focus, fall, get up, finally God gave us victory! GOD IS GOOD AND FOREVER IS HIS MERCY AND HIS GREAT LOVE.

The great truth, first God, then the family and finally the church, remember that since you do not live for yourself, now it is for God and if he keeps his commandments, then God will have you in the first place! If you put yourself, you are not a Christian and you are still in darkness.

Galatians 2:20

"With Christ I am crucified together, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and what I now live in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me "

The Christian life involves doing the will of God, put him first and the reward will be that he will put you first, but as long as you live your life not thinking of you, but of God and others.

MANY BLESSINGS TO ALL

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared for us to walk in them (Ephesians 2:10).

So if anyone is in Christ, a new creature is: old things have passed away; behold, all are made new (2 Corinthians 5:17).

... and we are in the true one, in his Son Jesus Christ (1 John 5:20).

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