A Life

 A LIFE...

When I was younger, I saw that when it got very dark and my brothers were not at home, my parents would get worried and start calling all the relatives and even talk about going to the police to see if they had been arrested.

Sometimes I also came home very late, (sometimes I called and let them know where I was)

At one point I was at my only maternal uncle and I purposely let the hours pass without calling home to see if they cared about me.

I was hoping that, just as when it got late and my brothers didn't come home they started calling all the relatives, they were going to do the same with me and at one point they were also going to call my uncle asking for me and I was going to know. They also cared about me.

When it was around 8 or 9 at night, I don't remember well, I called my mother and sadly asked her why, if it was already late and I wasn't at home, she hadn't called my uncle or any family member asking about me. That meant that she didn't care about me.

My mother's response was one of the best compliments my mother has ever given me, only surpassed by one that I will tell in another post.

She told me: "We don't worry when you're not home early because we know that you never do bad things, you're either with your uncle, watching music videos of Christian worshipers or at some worship team rehearsal, you don't care. "You give us reason to worry about you."

Once someone started to question me about some things and I answered: "The difference between other people and me is this: "Where were you at 3, 4, 5...?" At parties, sharing with friends, having fun, doing things. Normal things for a young man, right?

The difference with me is that my whole life has been about being with HIM (God), my whole life has been about HIM, All the best memories I have have been being with HIM. Reduced sharing with my family, a lot of sharing with HIM, reduced sharing with my friends, a lot of sharing with HIM.

And as the book says "God does not have favorites, he has intimates"

And if we analyze my life, it seems more like God hated me. So much so that many times I have said to him "God, why has my life been so horrible if my whole life has been about chasing you, trying to cheer you up, trying to honor you?"

There are people who give God what is left of their time and expect to have a lot of God. ??????

I remember a phrase my dad used to say, he said "This is value for value"

We cannot expect to give God what we have left over from our time, what we have left over from our love, what we have left over from our passion and expect to receive the best from God.

I remember that at one stage in my life I was worried about having a girlfriend because I didn't want it to reduce the time I dedicated to God.

And in these cases the parable of Jesus does not fit, that the one who was hired last was paid the same.

And no, this is not about deserving or earning something, it is about intimacy and giving it the place of preeminence that God should have.

And no, I don't believe myself more than anyone else, rather like I said, sometimes it seems like God hates me. Since I was young I have asked God for a house and nothing, I am living one of the worst moments of my life and I have been asking Him for years to get me out of this situation and Nothing!

But dedicating my life to HIM has given me different riches that, in truth, almost no one values. I have a glory, but it is a different type of glory, a type of glory that cannot be boasted about because it is the glory that comes from suffering.

This glory has made me understand that I cannot boast about anything because nothing is mine. Everything is HIM.

There are people who, unlike me, perhaps received Christ at 20, 30, 40, 50 and think that they cannot dedicate their life to God like I did.

Let me tell you a story. I started in computing at the age of 18 and I believed that I had entered that world very late, but what I did was focus on the study of computing in such a way, to immerse myself in such a way that in a short time it seemed that I was born knowing about computing. so I did it :)

Beloved, beloved, do not think that you are too old to dedicate your entire life to him. Immerse yourself in God in such a way that it seems that since you were children you have been with him like Samuel.

There are many things, many things that await you in intimacy if you dedicate your entire life to it. And no, I'm not talking about money, I already said I don't have it, I'm not talking about houses and cars either because I already said that young man I'm asking you for a house and nothing, and I'm not talking to you about eliminating problems either, I already said that I have been praying for years to get out of this and nothing.

But there are some riches, a type of wealth, there is a kind of glory, a type of glory, that is worth more than a house or a car, a type of riches that go beyond the natural and extend to eternity.

A kind of wealth that makes your name known in heaven and hell.

Be with HIM, live for HIM

PRICELESS.

I am El Profe Bubba