A Simple Life

Daily, animals get out of their hidden places to seek their food supply. Each of them knows they must do their best to get what they want. However, during this search, the unexpected can happen.

They may not find what they are looking for. Another animal can take away their goal or disturb their search. Or they may find less than expected.

The way animals act brings us some very interesting reflections. They don’t care about news of the economy or politics; nor do they worry about what is beyond their reach.

If something goes wrong, or they are wronged; they don’t revenge, and don’t alter their character to reply to the situation. They keep faithful to what they were created to be.

They also don’t worry about the future: days, months, or years. The very thing they are concerned about is winning that day.

May the animals’ ways inspire us to go ahead; to have an incorruptible and immutable character, and to calm anxiety, living each day at a time.

And above all creation is the Lord, who created them like us. God protects all He made. The creation only needs to be attentive to the voice of the Creator.

Matthew 6:27-28

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Children

A child is led by their parents everywhere because they don’t know where to go. Besides that, the path may be dangerous. They can follow the wrong way, or some bad company can get close.

Parents ensure their protection, guiding them by hand, indicating where and how they must follow, and putting away all that could disturb or hurt them. Parents do their best to keep the child well.

And the child, even not knowing where is going, trusts in their parents. They don't even know all the details of the journey; they know their parents would never lead them to something bad. And even when the child thinks that was led to an unpleasant place, they find out that all makes sense, and all had a good reason.

When we are children we have more faith and trust than when we become adults. We don’t believe in the path that God is leading us on. We think that He doesn’t care about us, or He has abandoned us.

But the truth is: like a Great Loving Father, the Lord sees the whole path and the final destination. He leads us through paths that will make us grow, develop, strengthen, and become all He dreamed of.

Psalm 25:4-5

Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

Reply to the Gospel of the Ostentation

If you think like that, everything is wrong,

Your heart's contamination has already been done.

The truth of God, you cannot see,

You think to be Christian is with God trading.

God does not accept negotiation nor reward,

The offer that is given must come from the heart.

The most expensive gift, God already gave us,

The Lord has chosen and conceded salvation to us.

The offerings are for the works to be kept,

To the ministries grow and save lives,

The offerings are to pay all bills,

They are not a coin you can deal.

You have to abandon this demoniac greed,

You must remember the beginning, what God promised.

God promised He would lead your soul to salvation,

He did not promise He would give you things for ostentation.

Jesus Christ himself was an example of humility,

Being the son of God, He had no property.

For the whole land, only with his feet, He walked,

Even not a little old donkey, He bought.

The apostles had almost nothing,

Jesus’ followers left the houses where they were living,

To them, what was essential never lacked,

All that was needed, the Lord provided.

You have no right to humiliate anyone,

They are God’s creation, you have to help everyone.

If you do not do it, your soul you are condemning,

The god of this age, in your body, is inhabiting.

This poem is part of the book Christian Poetry Volume III.

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https://books2read.com/u/3nG5R5