" If anyone is thirsty , COME TO ME AND DRINK "
" If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink "
(John 7: 37);
For many years I considered these words of Jesus as little more than empty and meaningless. As much as I went to churches of all types in their search, looking for my thirst to know, I could never achieve. In contrast, the disappointment grew as a huge mountain that I became an atheist who hated to hear just name it.
This is what I have managed to make the religious leaders of Christianity. That people feel thirsty to know Christ can never drink that source.
... The reason? Because none of these leaders, any church, denomination, or whatever you call those stores lost people, none of these leaders, I repeat, truly represents God, much less the way he teaches.
It is for this reason that Christ's words in Matthew 11:28 " Come unto me all ye that and burdened, and I will give you rest "are not the result we expected.
want refuse, those who attend to their denominations are not true in this promise:
" Al that comes to me will never drive away .. "(John 6:37)
The situation can be summarized as follows: A person, seeking relief for their problems or domestic situation, believes that attending a cult or denomination find that rest that Jesus promises. But soon he finds that the reality is different. Although for months or years go to his church, two or three times a week, a snack for his soul reaches only momentarily, while listening to some of those songs "Christian", or during the sermon or the prayer of the pastor or leader.
But when it comes out of his temple, that person head-on crash against reality. Do not feel that rest and the refreshments promised by Jesus. So looking forward to the next meeting ... And so it is life, without knowing the rest that Jesus promises to those who seek.
The explanation they give their pastors at this, is: "you must have a hidden sin .." "You lack faith," "you lack commitment the Lord, "and join thousands of other nonsense that deeply into despair those who do not find relief.
Other people prefer to silence their questions to avoid being identified as "lack of spirituality", "lack of faith" and other things. Fast, pray, punishing his body, mortify his flesh, cry and cry listening to these fake singers "Christians" that are simply merchants of emotions that are fabulously enriched by ignorance of the gullible.
So people go to their churches and when they return to their homes once again feel the thirst for God. They have not been filled. They find what they've come for.
But, you ask some ... so this promise of Jesus is false ..?
but whoever drinks the water I shall give him shall never thirst but the water I give him will become in him a fountain springing up into life eternal. (John 4:14)
If this is true-that is, sure-why people are still thirsty ...?
Obviously, because they have been drinking from a source that is not Christ.
I do not do anything complicated ... There is no expensive seminars to take Bible school "Christians" do not have to be a close friend of the pastor, do not pay large amounts of money-or few-to get closer to salvation of Christ.
Jesus compares the act of salvation in the simple act of drinking water. Simple as that: go to the source and drinking .... Nothing more.
This promise, "shall never thirst" is supported by the invitation of Jesus himself: " If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink " (John 7:37); " And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And that heareth say, Come. And who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life freely .. "(Revelation 22:17)
Note that there we are not saying you have to perform complicated rituals or give money to buy a miracle. It tells us that just have to take this water, which is free. Needs to be made directly, without intermediaries, without these imposters who call themselves "pastors" or "leaders" ... It is Christ in person, who provides the water that each of us must drink yourself.
Jesus invites us to go to Him directly:
But in the last great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried saying, "If anyone thirsts, come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture says, rivers of living water will run inside. This said about the Spirit that they would receive those who believed in him, it had not yet been given the Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified . (John 7:37-39)
fact, as I have noted, the act of drinking is closely related to the action of the Holy Spirit in each of the real disciples of Christ. first thing is to feel thirsty, the second is to come to Christ and drink, and the third is when the Holy Spirit comes in and produces a stream of living water inside who accepts Christ and receives it actively, "drinking "him. The person feels thirst will be filled to fill and she will become a channel rivers of living water.
So different to the experience of those who attend their names ....!
In practice, many are not ready to drink straight from the source. So go to any denomination to receive the water tainted by religious leaders, who impersonates Christ and his followers lie ensuring that they have been chosen by God to shepherd the flock. What a big lie ...!
People who attend these churches do not really want to listen to Christ, but to obtain temporary relief that will soothe the feelings of guilt or perhaps may seem like a lot easier to follow what they say their human leader, who strive to hear the voice of the one Shepherd, Christ.
Many other people sense that something is wrong in their churches ... They perceive that there is no God ... but silenced his conscience because their egos would be hurt if they accept other information other than that they have followed for years. Others stay in their names because they are bribed with positions of power and money .... Found what they have actually gone to look for: the riches and the pride of the world.
But a minimum number, that you really thirst for Christ and not found in those places snack for their lives, living in a constant inner struggle because these religious leaders, they are mere instruments of Satan, they say that if you leave "where God has placed them, "I get angry and terrible punishment befall him, ruins and more. So, I keep saying, "stay here, where God put and keep tithing."
Both of religious leaders and their followers, referred to by the Apostle Paul:
But evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived . ( 2Ti 3:13)
According to the Letter to Timothy, the deluded are described as "bad men" in the same category of deceivers. No one will excuse that it was referred to the truth so he could make a decision.
The good news is that those who truly seek God, may find it:
But without faith it is impossible to please God, because it is necessary that cometh to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek him . (Hebrews 11:6)
The work of the disciples of Christ to those who already have found, is not to convert people in their personal followers ... The mission is to lead people to Christ, not to themselves. Its mission is to teach them to obey Christ, not man.
His work, which Christ left us is to bring people into the inexhaustible source, free and perfect Christ. And bring them to Christ does not mean they are in bondage of one ... but bring them to Christ is to lead up to it so that it is Jesus, directly and without intermediaries, who lead each person you seek. This is a process that, as Scripture clearly mentioned, lasts only a few hours .... Never lasts for days, much less years.
is so simple and at the same time, so hard ... But this difficulty only depends on the level of our stubbornness.
So the question to " can have spirituality, contact with God, not a religion ..?
The answer is a definite and resounding: Yes is the only way ...
Ricardo Puentes M
August 7, 2009.
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