The Truth Will Set you Free

I was talking with a friend some weeks ago about how sometimes non-Christians seem to have a really easier life than Christians, how it seems that we struggle a lot more to get passed the day, how we see to make a big deal of everything while our non believers friends just go on each day as if living was the easiest thing to do, no worries, partying every day, always surrounded by nice people, no money problems, get everything they want.
Well, it seems so, but in the same conversation I got the answer, and then this answer is kind of following me for some weeks. They may seem happier and they may seem to take life easier, but they are slaves, slaves of the money, of the parties, of the alcohol that keeps them smiling all the time, of the sex that a lot of times is the reason why they go after meeting people, slaves of the people they are surrounded by all the time. Because if you take that away from them, they have nothing left, they have no reason to live, they have no truth in their lives, everything they build is fragile and may go away in just one second, as everything in life. Everything but the Truth.
Knowing the truth is like being rescued from the Matrix (yes, I'm really talking about the movie), when you're living in the Matrix everything looks perfect, you may have some problems, but they are easily solved, and life goes on with no harm to your emotions, but it's not you that is really living your life, you're controlled by the Matrix, everything is fake, you're not your own. And then, when you get the pill that will make you know the truth, that will take you outside the Matrix, that's when the war begins, that's when everything start looking harder, that's when things start to look ugly, but that's when you're free, that's when you're your own.
When you're your own? But aren't we supposed to be God's? Well, yeah, I guess so, but it's different, because when we chose to be God's we are also our own, it's something we chose to do, and we are not slaves anymore, but servants, and as most as it may seem controversial, God's servants are the most free creatures in the world, because they are not only servants, but also children.
As for those who don't want to be set free, Psalm 73 has a really comforting explanation about what will happen to them, and specially a reminder that even when it seems that our life is harder then theirs, nothing is worth more than to be free in Jesus Christ, the only truth.

When the rain comes...

"When the rain comes it seems that everyone has
gone away
When the night falls you wonder if you shouldn't
find someplace
To run and hide / Escape the pain
But hiding's such a lonely thing to do

I can't stop the rain / From falling down on you again
I can't stop the rain / But I will hold you 'til it goes away

When the rain comes you blame it on the things that
you have done
When the storm fades you know that rain must fall
on everyone
So Rest awhile / it'll be alright
No one loves you like I do

When the rain comes / I will hold you"

When the rain comes, Third Day

Belonging...

I was thinking about belonging while listening to the song "San Angelo" by Third Day! To me it's a belonging song. "Forever seem so distant", "I miss my home", "When you surrounded you can still feel so alone ", "I find myself questioning this place.". I mean, for someone who at the age of 23 already lived in 5 different cities, two different countries and 16 different houses belonging is something really difficult and home is a word that is "million miles away". Where is home? Where am I from? Sometimes I can't tell, sometimes I can't even tell my name because I don't know anymore which language I'm speaking (it shouldn't be difficult to say your own name, but when you're all the time switching from three different languages it can get pretty confusing even to say your name).

Well, it's a difficult life stile to be nomad, you go somewhere, leaving everything you had till that moment behind, including family sometimes, you make friends there, then you move and start all over again, if you're moving abroad it's harder, because it's more difficult to be accepted, it takes some time, and then when you get accepted you move again, leaving all you got there behind, including friends.... And at the end you just feel alone and not belonging anywhere, it's a strange feeling. But you know, what I've come to realize is that it doesn't matter where I go or where I've already been, I'll simply never belong, because I don't belong to this world anyway. Everything that always upsets me everywhere I go will continue to upset me at any place, because it's always the things that goes against what I have found to be the propose of my life that upsets me.

At the end what matters is not find a place where you belong, but find Whom you belong to, the only one that can makes you feel like you belong, the only one that knows your heart, that cares about you, that likes you no matter what, that never goes away, the one you never leave behind. Once we learn to stop trying to belong to this world and just belong to Jesus, life becomes easier (not life itself, but the way we live it), because even if we'll never in this lifetime feel like we belong somewhere, we belong to someone, and not just anyone, but the only one that can make we feel really belonging.

God Bless!!!

P.S: If someone ever read this, sorry for the bad English, I'm really not in the mood of trying good writing today!!

Storm...

It doesn't matter how big the storm might seem or be, with Jesus we can always walk on water!!

"How long have I been in this storm?
So overwhelmed by the ocean's shapeless form
Water's getting harder to tread
With these waves crashing over my head

If I could just see you
Everything would be all right
If I'd see you
This darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
I know everything will be alright
I know everything is alright

I know you didn't bring me out here to drown
So why am I ten feet under and upside down
Barely surviving has become my purpose
Cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface

If I could just see you
Everything would be all right
If i'd see you
This darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be alright

And I will walk on water
You will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
I know everything will be alright
I know everything is alright

Everything is alright
Everything is alright"

Storm, by Lifehouse!!

Thoughts...

Sometimes thoughts just come to my mind, like questions that I've been asking for a long time that are just answered... it' feels strange sometimes, but it's good to have questions answered in your own mind, I use to think it's God that's answering me, and I like it to death. I mean, to have this God that is so close to me that He not only listens to all my questions but He also give me an answer to each one of them....