We start the last month of the year, December. I don’t know if for everyone, but for me this year has gone by very fast. I believe that the speed of information and the rush of our daily lives makes our perception and management of our time difficult, resulting in the feeling that time has passed and we have not seen it pass.
It’s interesting to think about this because many people say that when they get old, they will seek God. But the truth is that we do not know how many years we will live.
For this reason, this month we are working on a series of messages from our beloved brother Ramos Costa, whose theme is “Keeping our Eyes Fixed on God.”
In this series, Ramos Costa discusses how we need to stand firm in our faith, seeking God without deflecting despite difficulties. How many people do we know that amidst the challenges of life they turn away from God? How many people when they should stand on God will give up communion and relationships that bring us closer to God?
Unlike these kinds of people who give up in the midst of difficulties, there are those who in the midst of difficulties discover that their faith is renewed and maintained enabling them to grow and mature in the face of challenges, remaining firm and unwavering!!
I mention this because here in South America we have a country that has suffered greatly from all the bad choices of its rulers. This has meant that people have to live in extreme poverty, often forced them to feel the need to leave the country. This is Venezuela, the Latino country that lives under this pitiful situation, dealing with protests and often with a large part of the population seeking asylum in countries like Brazil.
Given this scenario, I want to share an email we received from one of our listeners in Venezuela:
First of all, thank you for continuing to broadcast through daily shortwave broadcasts a program of excellence that invites us to reflect and be better people, much more in my country that we deal with problems of various kinds daily. The Palavra Alegre (Word Joy) program serves us as an outlet for the tragedy we are experiencing.
On Sunday, I had the opportunity to listen for the first time to the Word Alegre Program. It gave me the opportunity to listen in Portuguese. The signal quality was very good, strong and clear, without noise or interference of any kind. Listener Jorge Luis Medina / Venezuela
We are happy to receive this message and to know that we have been like balm and freshness in the midst of so many problems in a society. The truth is that the message of Christ brings such comfort and peace. I ask all our readers to pray for Venezuela, Chile, and Bolivia—in fact, all South American countries that have been through a very critical political and social period in recent months.
