¿Guarantees?

For some reason these weeks, every time I turned on the TV appeared a commercial of some machines for exercise ―I think it's just coincidence hahaha― and all these commercials said one thing in common: ''if you don't get results, in 30 days, you give it back to us and we give you back your money'' ―all I could think was ''really? what will be the terms and conditions for that to happen''. In fact, that's what the guarantees are about: returns, repairs, refunds.

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If we talk about life, does life have any guarantees? There is no a ''Factory of Life'', where you call and the operator tells you ''if you don't see how your life works for you, in 5 years, you return it and we give you another life back''. That doesn't happen. Every day I attend to many young people, and something they agree about a lot is, in thinking, that when a person is a "good person" or "serves God", it is unfair that things go wrong or that they suffer. And I always ask this question: ''where is the label that guarantees a life without pain?'' ―because if you expect a life without pain, I have news: it doesn't exist.

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You don't find anyone in the bible, who has not suffered. From losses, criticism, betrayals, illnesses to war wounds and many of them were doing the will of God ―Jesus did the will of his Father and everything happened to him!― For that reason, He rightly says this: “I have told you these things so that you can have peace in me. In this world you will have suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world! -John 16:33, ERV”

''Peace in «ME»'' ―here is the key: have the «peace» that you find in the one that has defeated the world «Jesus», causes you to have courage and with that courage you survive suffering. There is no guarantee that everything will always go well or that you will not cry or even that you will not lose someone you love or that there will be no war wounds; but there is a guarantee that you can survive all that ... with His help.

Find your peace in Jesus and be brave!

I bless you and I hug you!