Primer Domingo de Cuaresma Dios está con nosotros, siempre. Este es nuestra fortaleza


No es una secreta que hay muchas tribulaciones y aflicciones en el mundo y en nuestras vidas.

Es más allá de los políticos y gobiernos, terrorismo..
Hay persons sufriendo mucho.

Por este dolor y sufriendo, no podríamos ser verdadero a nosotros mismos.
Quizás faltemos la capacidad a vivir y amar.

Hay la tentación a crear que Dios está probandonos.  O Dios está castigandonos.  O personas a veces tentado a decir que Dios solamente nos de lo que podremos manejar.  

No es la Buena Nueva de Jesucristo.

Jesús reveló, por sus hechos, sus palabras, y por su ser que siempre Dios está con nosotros.

Él reveló que la Buena Nueva es que el Padre nos ama, completamente, y que al fundo de nuestro ser es que somos los hijos amados de Dios.

Recuerde que evangelio, antes esta historia, Jesús fue bautizado, y él oyó la voz de Padre declarando él como su hijo amado.

Este era su ancla

Era su fortaleza a resistir el Satanás.
Él no cayó dentro de las trampas del poder, materialismo, y de estatus.
Él no puso la culpa en el Padre.

Incluso a la tentación última, como él estaba por la cruz, su fe en su ser el hijo amado era su fortaleza.

Lo que Jesús dice a nosotros es que es lo mismo para nosotros.

Así como Jesús experimentó dolor en la vida, por la ignorancia, el miedo, el rencor de los otros, vamos a experimentar lo mismo.  

Lo que es nuestra fortaleza es lo mismo también, el amor del Padre:  Que somos los amados hijos de Dios.
El Padre ama a nosotros, exactamente como Él ama Jesús.

y no hay nada, no hay nadie con el poder a robarnos de este estatus.

No político, presidente, terrorista,
no Papa, sacerdote,
no esposo abusivo, no padre abusivo,
no matón, ladron, racista
No cáncer, enfermedad, o accidente

Siempre el Padre va a amarnos.

Este es nuestra fuerza

Este es el sacramento que celebramos en la misa
Somos hijos del Padre; somos como Jesús que comemos y bebemos

y cuando la vida sea difícil, recuerden este.

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