"La Recompensa vale la Pena"

         
            You don't always see Gods work on television. However, when you do it is wonderful. I was normally watching documentaries on Discovery channel when all of a sudden the channel switched to Life & Travel. I saw food so I left it on. When the commercials came to a end there was a show going on about "Babalawos" witch is a religion common to Latin American countries. They wear all white to church and carry yellow and green bracelets or chains on them. They pray to a god that they believe is this rock in shape of a head . They would normally leave food by the rock and let it to decay, this is their way of  "feeding the God". On the TV show, a Babalawo priest was cleansing people of bad spirits. To cleanse they would firstly Rub an egg on you, secondly make you break the egg in a bad and thirdly make you hold the rock face in in order to clean your calms. Babalawos would sacrifice a chicken and then soak the rock in its blood to complete the cleansing ritual. When I saw this I became shocked and I said this is not God's work. On the show there was a 16 year old Christian boy being forced to do the cleansing ritual by his father. The show showed this boy praying to Jesus before the ritual and saying "Jesus please protect me from any chants or witchcraft that will be chanted upon me, In your wonderful, graceful and powerful name I pray, Amen". I also said amen and continued watching. The boy's father first did the ritual and when it was his sons turn to break the egg it did not break, he threw if as hard as he could at the ground and it was as if the egg were stone. The boy's father and the priest looked shocked of what just happened. the priest picked up the egg and simply dropped it and it cracked into tiny pieces. As I looked at this I said praise the lord and I prayed afterwords.
           When you are in Christ you are given much more than you give. Christianity gets you closer to god and to understanding his will. It help us understand that when Jesus died on that cross he died absorbing all our sin, he died thinking of you. If you give yourself to god you will feel his love for you. The reward that the Lord has for you is not comparable to any other reward there is. God is simply unique. Peruse God, God is the key to true peace and happiness.
            You may sometimes think that god hates you because you feel that you suffer. God doesn't want us suffer, that's why Jesus died for to release us from sin and suffering. However, if we continue to dwell along side the devil or any other man-made god, your future wont be as bright and wonderful as the people who dwell along side Jesus. God promised that the reward for worshipping and following him is great. The Lord is waiting for his followers in heaven. Don't think that because you don't do things that don't please god that he doesn't love you. He is looking down at you right now and saying I want that one. He loves us despite the crimes we have committed. All he wants is for you to love him back and whatever you want in life he will give it to you. You just have you learn to be patient and it will be yours.