THE EMOTION'S ILLUSION

A few days ago, the deposed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, gave us (Guatemala) a visit that coincided with a protest of the people of the town of San Juan Sacatepequez whom demand that the Government stop the construction of a concrete plant in its lands.

In the middle of all that, Zelaya arrived to see our president (Alvaro Colom) and the people started to shout sentences like "Zelaya for president!"

That shows us the problem of taking decisions driven by emotions. This type of choice could never stand the test of time because it is based on what's happening at certain time and circumstances will change by the hour. Even if I'm being deceived by people who just tell me what I want to hear, then again, the emotion will take over and the decision will be a bad one.

The question now is: Don't we do that to God also? That's why the most important decisions shouldn't be completely taken on sunday, but wait until wednesday or thursday (when the "holiest" of our week has been left behind at church, where we often left God too).

A decision that begins on the sunday's sermon but, after meditation and a daily-reality dosis, ends a few days later, is a much more trusty decision and is more likely to impact our lives greatly.

Jesus said it: "There are the ones who receive the message with joy, but after that, the problems suffocate it." 

The emotion's illusion is powerful but is nothing more than that: An illusion that fades like vapor at the first wind!

That's why so many people at churches all around the world take decisions and then, at the first problem or when they see the real "cost" of that choice... they retreat without even notice.

So, we should receive the message with joy, indeed, but we also have to meditate on our heart about it during the rest of the week. That's what God tells us once and again, for example, across all the book of Proverbs.