WORMS OF HELL

   What a horrible nightmare! Little missed to give me a heart attack ...! I woke up sweating, trembling; I immediately knelt down to pray ... I dreamed that I attended, along with many other inhabitants of the big city, a heavenly trial in which a being with resplendent garb, surrounded by many angels, was the judge. I recognized that it was him who was, two thousand years ago, tortured and crucified in Jerusalem on a voluntary sacrifice for all mankind.

   Each of the people present marched against this venerable Being for approval or disapproval for their good or bad actions made during their lives on Earth. When my turn came, amid the expectation of that crowd, the judge turned to me, and unreservedly told me: "Stand aside, nothing to do with you, evildoer"! I felt like the world was sinking under my feet, How terrible! I woke up terrified! During the month that followed this creepy dream I thought a lot about my behavior as a Christian.

  

I am a believer baptized who regularly attend church, pray, I read the Bible and I meet all my ecclesiastical duties. I do not smoke, I do not get drunk, Fornico no, no ... and all the other "no"; indeed, I exercise leadership where I congregated. So if the bad dream was a warning that I would correct something, what that would be? I lasted much pondering, until I thought I had found the answer.

   I have become convinced that God not only wants us to NOT do evil, but wants to do good that is within our reach. That while justice says not to do to others what we do not want for us, the love of God, which was poured into our hearts, that goes beyond justice, saying we do to others what we would like for us. Doing so may fail to produce in us such remorse, which is similar to feel to be being eaten away by hell (Mark 9.44) worms.

  

   The Christian spiritual love is much more than hugs, superficial prayers and good intentions. The Bible says "So, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those of the household of faith" (Gá.6.10). And we have opportunities go! Because like the apostle Paul we can appeal to our rights of citizenship (Hch.22. 25-29) to claim the state (because why pay taxes) to defend our lives, honor, property and other rights, such as well says the Colombian Constitution in its Article 2.

   Christians are also part of the community of people of this country and if as such they are organized in pursuit of the common good, may receive from the state government sufficient financial resources for their own purposes, without anyone having to divert them from the ethical principles which biblically they oriented their lives. Then, as responsible Christians who have someday to account for the talents that the Savior gave us to participate in His work, we must know and publicize these rights that assist us to achieve, at least in part, have the abundant life Jesus Christ wants for us because "... who knows to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (Jam.4. 17).