Un Amor Que Puedes Compartir - Softcover

Lucado, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881137448 ISBN 13: 9780881137446

Verlag: Grupo Nelson, 2002

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Receive first. Love second. Drink deeply of God's love and find that you can love others in the overflow. They say it is better to give than to receive - well, no more! Max Lucado unpacks 1 Corinthians 13 word by word, addressing the only way we can truly love by receiving God's love first. If you have never received love, how can you be asked to give it away? God is the only one who can give us the power to love, and in the receiving we may find love for the giving.

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Desde que entró en el ministerio en 1978, MAX LUCADO ha servido en iglesias de Miami, Florida; Río de Janeiro, Brasil; y San Antonio, Texas. Actualmente sirve como pastor de enseñanza de la Iglesia Oak Hills en San Antonio. Ha recibido el Premio Pinnacle 2021 de la ECPA por su destacada contribución a la industria editorial y la sociedad en general. Es el autor inspirador más vendido de Estados Unidos, con más de ciento cincuenta millones de productos impresos.

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Un Amor Que Puedes Compartir

By Max Lucado

Caribe/Betania Editores

Copyright © 2002 Max Lucado
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780881137446

Chapter One

The 7:47 Principle

We love, because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19 NASB

God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately.Others have promised and failed.But God has promised and succeeded.He loves you with an unfailing love.And his love-if you will let it-can fill youand leave you with a love worth giving.

Could two people be more different?

He is looked up to. She is looked down on.

He is a church leader. She is a streetwalker.

He makes a living promoting standards. She's made a living breaking them.

He's hosting the party. She's crashing it.

Ask the other residents of Capernaum to point out the more pious of thetwo, and they'll pick Simon. Why, after all, he's a student of theology, aman of the cloth. Anyone would pick him. Anyone, that is, except Jesus.Jesus knew them both. And Jesus would pick the woman. Jesus does pickthe woman. And, what's more, he tells Simon why.

Not that Simon wants to know. His mind is elsewhere. How did thiswhore get in my house? He doesn't know whom to yell at first, the womanor the servant who let her in. After all, this dinner is a formal affair.Invitation only. Upper crust. Crhme de la crhme. Who let the riffraff in?

Simon is angry. Just look at her-groveling at Jesus' feet. Kissing them, no less!Why if Jesus were who he says he is, he would have nothing to do with this woman.

One of the lessons Simon learned that day was this: Don't thinkthoughts you don't want Jesus to hear. For Jesus heard them, and when hedid, he chose to share a few of his own.

"Simon," he said to the Pharisee, "I have something to say to you."

"All right, Teacher," Simon replied, "go ahead."

Then Jesus told him this story: "A man loaned money to two people-five hundred pieces of silver to one and fifty pieces to the other. But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that?"

Simon answered, "I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt."

"That's right," Jesus said. Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn't offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You didn't give me a kiss of greeting, but she has kissed my feet again and again from the time I first came in. You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume. I tell you, her sins-and they are many-have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love." (Luke 7:40-47 NLT)

Simon invites Jesus to his house but treats him like an unwanted step-uncle.No customary courtesies. No kiss of greeting. No washing his feet.No oil for his head.

Or, in modern terms, no one opened the door for him, took his coat, orshook his hand. Count Dracula has better manners.

Simon does nothing to make Jesus feel welcome. The woman, however,does everything that Simon didn't. We aren't told her name. Just her reputation-a sinner. A prostitute most likely. She has no invitation to the partyand no standing in the community. (Imagine a hooker in a tight dressshowing up at the parsonage during the pastor's Christmas party. Headsturn. Faces blush. Gasp!)

But people's opinions didn't stop her from coming. It's not for them shehas come It's for him. Her every move is measured and meaningful. Eachgesture extravagant. She puts her cheek to his feet, still dusty from the path.She has no water, but she has tears. She has no towel, but she has her hair.She uses both to bathe the feet of Christ. As one translation reads, "sherained tears" on his feet (v. 44 MSG). She opens a vial of perfume, perhapsher only possession of worth, and massages it into his skin. The aroma is asinescapable as the irony.

You'd think Simon of all people would show such love. Is he not the reverendof the church, the student of Scripture? But he is harsh, distant.You'd think the woman would avoid Jesus. Is she not the woman of thenight, the town hussy? But she can't resist him. Simon's "love" is calibratedand stingy. Her love, on the other hand, is extravagant and risky.

How do we explain the difference between the two? Training? Education?Money? No, for Simon has outdistanced her in all three.

But there is one area in which the woman leaves him eating dust. Thinkabout it. What one discovery has she made that Simon hasn't? What onetreasure does she cherish that Simon doesn't? Simple. God's love. We don'tknow when she received it. We aren't told how she heard about it. Did sheoverhear Jesus' words "Your Father is merciful" (Luke 6:36 ESV)? Was shenearby when Jesus had compassion on the widow of Nain? Did someonetell her how Jesus touched lepers and turned tax collectors into disciples?We don't know. But we know this. She came thirsty. Thirsty from guilt.Thirsty from regret. Thirsty from countless nights of making love and findingnone. She came thirsty.

And when Jesus hands her the goblet of grace, she drinks. She doesn'tjust taste or nip. She doesn't dip her finger and lick it or take the cup andsip it. She lifts the liquid to her lips and drinks, gulping and swallowing likethe parched pilgrim she is. She drinks until the mercy flows down her chinand onto her neck and chest. She drinks until every inch of her soul ismoist and soft. She comes thirsty and she drinks. She drinks deeply.

Simon, on the other hand, doesn't even know he is thirsty. People likeSimon don't need grace; they analyze it. They don't request mercy; theydebate and prorate it. It wasn't that Simon couldn't be forgiven; he justnever asks to be.

So while she drinks up, he puffs up. While she has ample love to give,he has no love to offer. Why? The 7:47 Principle. Read again verse 47 ofchapter 7: "A person who is forgiven little shows only little love." Just likethe jumbo jet, the 7:47 Principle has wide wings. Just like the aircraft, thistruth can lift you to another level. Read it one more time. "A person whois forgiven little shows only little love." In other words, we can't give whatwe've never received. If we've never received love, how can we love others?

But, oh, how we try! As if we can conjure up love by the sheer force ofwill. As if there is within us a distillery of affection that lacks only a pieceof wood or a hotter fire. We poke it and stoke it with resolve. What's ourtypical strategy for treating a troubled relationship? Try harder.

"My spouse needs my forgiveness? I don't know how, but I'm going togive it."

"I don't care how much it hurts, I'm going to be nice to that bum."

"I'm supposed to love my neighbor? Okay. By golly, I will."

So we try. Teeth clinched. Jaw firm. We're going to love if it kills us! Andit may do just that.

Could it be we are missing a step? Could it be that the first step of loveis not toward them but toward him? Could it be that the secret to loving isreceiving? You give love by first receiving it. "We love, because he first lovedus" (1 John 4:19 NASB).

Long to be more loving? Begin by accepting your place as a dearly lovedchild. "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live alife of love, just as Christ loved us" (Eph. 5:1-2 NIV).

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven. "Bekind and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grupo Nelson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Spanisch
• ISBN 10: 0881137448
• ISBN 13: 9780881137446
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227
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