….KISSES, I AM "EL PROFE BUBBA"!

KISSES, I AM EL PROFE BUBBA!

I have been asked several times: "Professor in what?" What is that Bubba? Well, today, among other things, I am going to answer what I am or was a Professor in and where the "Bubba" comes from.

When my first niece was born, I was on the Internet and I saw a photo of a baby that looked very similar to my niece and I started to call my niece Bubba, but then it came back to me and the nickname and in my family they no longer called my niece "Bubba" but me. On the other hand, for years I taught computer science and English in several academies and I really gave classes to a lot of people and it was common for everyone on the street to call me "Profe" instead of calling me by my name (thankful, by the way, because I don't like my name).

On one occasion, a student (I think her name was Marien, by the way) heard a relative of mine call me "Bubba" and started calling me that, and the truth is that as long as they don't disrespect me, I really don't care what nickname they give me. Well, I allowed it, and so it spread and in the end I accepted the nickname "Profe Bubba."

Then I heard a very good sermon from a pastor who I hope has not been harmed, the pastor's name is Itiel Arroyo, the sermon is called "Being a voice or having a name" and in that sermon he explained that Christians should not seek to make a name for ourselves or for our name to be known, or to be famous or anything like that but to "Be a voice"

I took that sermon very seriously and decided that everything Christian that I publish on the networks would not bear my name, but rather I would use "Profe Bubba" And since my Christian life has really been to say what no one wants to hear, confront what no one wants to confront and expose what no one wants to expose, then I put everything together and took the verse from John 1, 23 as my banner.

All my life in the church, all my life knowing about praise groups, I attended a thousand praise conferences. More than 20 years as a praise director.

My parents were always in the leadership in all the churches where we were.

My mother, although not very educated, instilled in me the study of the scriptures. We used to have several versions of the Bible, Bible dictionaries, concordances and study Bibles. My father has been a pastor for more than 20 years.

When I was thirteen, I did something crazy: 'I saw my mother get up early in the morning to pray and one day I told her that I wanted to pray like her and at that age she told me "I'm going to get you up just once, and then you get up by yourself." The crazy woman would get up at 2 in the morning to pray and she would pray until 6 in the morning and I came up with that crazy idea and in the end, after a lot of struggle, after a few months I was praying at the same pace as her.

Today I think about it and I still think that it was crazy to do that at 13 years old. Crazy but wonderful. To this day I don't know any teenager, young person or adult who does it.

Before God called my father to the pastorate, we went through many Pentecostal and free churches, most of them heretical, unfortunately, but He formed in me the maturity to know how to discern between right and wrong. As the apostle Paul says, "who by practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil" Hebrews 5, 14.

My parents allowed me to be in conversations about church and ministry issues because according to them I had the maturity to do so and that allowed me from a very young age to understand issues and situations regarding church and ministry that many people, even with years in the gospel, cannot handle.

My parents used to be very zealous for the truth and because of that same commitment to the truth, they did not allow false doctrines to be imposed on them and it was for that reason that we were in so many churches.

Unfortunately, my parents lost all zeal and ended up becoming that which they fought against, but my prayers do not cease for them to return to the truth. Of all my brothers, the only one who inherited that zeal that they had for the truth was me, and I hope one day to be the channel that God uses to bring them back to the truth.

My life was always horrible, but in these years away from my city it was even worse, which led me to study the Bible even more, to study about the gospel, about Jesus himself, to study about the history of the church and the men that God used to turn the world upside down, and given the situation, I studied "without restraint" and like never before, everything that has to do with PRAYER.

I studied the characteristics of almost every one of the prayers that appear in the Bible. I read what was written by those known as men of God throughout history, I read about their lives, I read how they prayed, I read what they preached about prayer...

And it is that when one is going hungry and no matter how much one prays one does not see that anything happens, look, one begins to wonder if the problem is that one is not praying well! And such was my case.

If I used to study a lot before, during this time I have become a much more studious man of the Bible.

Well, my life is still pretty horrible where I am, I still suffer horribly, but the growth was enormous, so much so that I had to make posts on my Facebook asking my friends for forgiveness for not having been the Christian I should have been. And it is that in this horrible time I realized that before, although I believed myself to be a very Christian, I still lacked a lot; and I am sure that I still lack it. And it is true, I still do not achieve it, I still struggle with weaknesses, I am still not like Christ, although I try every day.

In this horrible time God has allowed me to write 4 books that by the way are not shooting arrows, but are real things, lived and of which I have the marks.

Apart from the 4 Books I have a blog and a Facebook account, a blog where I only have thoughts and reflections of true men of God, my personal blog and a Christian library.

And well, this is me Domingo González, El Profe Bubba...