{"id":2394,"date":"2021-10-27T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s43008.p1365.sites.pressdns.com\/?page_id=2394"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:08:59","slug":"with-us-now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/with-us-now\/","title":{"rendered":"With Us Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finalmente, o sono veio. Ali, no feno, no lugar mais improv\u00e1vel, Maria n\u00e3o p\u00f4de mais resistir. <\/strong>A exaust\u00e3o tomou conta de seu corpo jovem, e ela sucumbiu \u00e0 um sono profundo e sem sonhos- recuperando seu corpo do trauma do parto. O choro dele enfim a acordou, e suas p\u00e1lpebras pesadas se abriram. O amanhecer ainda estava distante, mas a fome dele n\u00e3o podia esperar. Ela inspirou o ar fresco da noite enquanto sua mente clareava. Tudo que havia acontecido retornou \u00e0 mem\u00f3ria de uma vez. Ela sentou-se e o viu ali na manjedoura. Enquanto ela estava perdida em seu sono, ele havia permanecido ali onde ela o havia deixado. O peito dele se levantava e contra\u00eda embaixo da sua roupa. A urg\u00eancia do seu choro aumentou, mas Maria deu um suspiro de al\u00edvio. Ele estava bem. Na verdade, ele estava mais do que bem. Ele estava em seu lar. Jesus veio para ficar. Pela primeira vez desde o princ\u00edpio, Deus iria ficar.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Deus havia vindo muitas vezes antes.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEle havia comido com Abra\u00e3o, aparecido \u00e0 Isaque e Jac\u00f3, e dado um banquete para Mois\u00e9s e os anci\u00e3os de Israel no topo do Monte Sinai. Por mais que esses encontros tenham sido grandiosos, eles sempre foram breves. Essas visitas foram como rel\u00e2mpagos, brilhantes e ent\u00e3o como fuma\u00e7a subindo aos c\u00e9us.\u00a0Mas, com Jesus, foi diferente.<\/em>\u00a0Ele era como o Sol- quente, firme e constante \u2013 a luz do mundo (Jo\u00e3o 8:12<\/a>).\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Quando Deus tornou-se homem, n\u00e3o foi s\u00f3 para fazer uma participa\u00e7\u00e3o especial natalina que nos deixaria felizes. Ele juntou-se \u00e0 hist\u00f3ria da humanidade e tornou-se a personagem principal \u2013 completamente transformando o enredo. Ele estava l\u00e1 em Jerusal\u00e9m depois de os anjos terem retornado ao seu lar celestial. Deus havia vindo ao mundo, e Ele estava no colo de pais sonolentos que caminhavam por ruas antigas e estreitas, buscando algu\u00e9m que poderia oferec\u00ea-los um pouco de hospitalidade.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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E o que aconteceu nos milhares de dias da vida de Jesus que n\u00e3o est\u00e3o registrados na B\u00edblia? Um v\u00e9u os cobre de nossa vis\u00e3o, mas, com certeza, Ele estava l\u00e1. Deus conosco. Ele estava l\u00e1 nas manh\u00e3s nubladas e tardes escaldantes. Ele estava l\u00e1 na marcenaria onde aprendeu a ser carpinteiro com seu pai. Ele estava na sinagoga como um menino com outras crian\u00e7as da sua idade. Jesus esteve presente nos funerais e casamentos dos moradores de seu vilarejo que viviam na pequena cidade de Nazar\u00e9. Deus desceu para o comum. Ele imergiu-se no ordin\u00e1rio. Ele caminhou ao lado da humanidade quebrada e devastada. Ele sofreu conosco.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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ad\u00b7ven.to<\/strong><\/p>

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A chegada de uma pessoa, coisa ou evento not\u00e1vel.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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O Advento \u00e9 um tempo de nos lembrarmos do momento glorioso da chegada de Jesus e de bebermos da verdade que Ele veio e viveu entre n\u00f3s. Ele ficou conosco. Jesus foi nosso vizinho e amigo. Ele foi \u00e0quele que compartilhou conosco a mesa e sentou conosco ao lado do po\u00e7o. Com certeza, estamos todos dolorosamente consciente que Jesus n\u00e3o est\u00e1 aqui agora. Ele n\u00e3o est\u00e1 mais conosco. Jesus revelou quem Deus realmente \u00e9 e como Ele deseja se relacionar com homens e mulheres ao longo de toda a eternidade. Mesmo que Jesus n\u00e3o esteja presente fisicamente ao nosso lado agora, Ele pode fazer morada em nossos cora\u00e7\u00f5es atrav\u00e9s do Esp\u00edrito Santo para que ainda caminhemos em um relacionamento \u00edntimo com Ele.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Talvez, voc\u00ea esteja lendo essas palavras e nunca tenha decidido acreditar em Jesus. Talvez, voc\u00ea passou v\u00e1rios Natais na igreja, mas percebeu que seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e1 longe do Senhor. N\u00e3o importa qual seja a sua situa\u00e7\u00e3o,\u00a0o Advento \u00e9 um tempo para nos aproximarmos do fogo.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00c9 um tempo de focarmos nossa aten\u00e7\u00e3o na gl\u00f3ria e no mist\u00e9rio daquilo que come\u00e7ou numa manjedoura e terminar\u00e1 com Jesus voltando e fazendo morada entre n\u00f3s de novo, para sempre.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Procure uma B\u00edblia hoje. Voc\u00ea pode ler a hist\u00f3ria de Jesus por si pr\u00f3prio. Comece no evangelho de Jo\u00e3o. O cora\u00e7\u00e3o de Jesus est\u00e1 em cada palavra escrita. A hist\u00f3ria Dele \u00e9 a sua hist\u00f3ria e Ele te convida a se achegar a Ele hoje. Deixe-o ser Deus convosco.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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At last, sleep came. There, on the straw, in the unlikeliest of places, Mary could resist no more. Exhaustion conquered her young frame, and she succumbed to a deep, dreamless sleep \u2014 her body recovering from the trauma of birthing a life. His crying finally woke her, and her heavy eyelids burst open. The dawn was still distant, but His hunger would not wait. She breathed in the chill night air as her mind cleared. Everything that had happened came flooding back. She sat up and saw Him there, in the feed trough. While she had been lost in unconscious slumber, He had been there, right where she left Him. His tiny chest rose and fell beneath the swaddling clothes. The urgency of his cries hastened, but Mary breathed a sigh of relief. He was fine. In fact, He was more than fine. He was home. Jesus was staying. For the first time since the beginning, God was actually staying now. God had come many times before. He had eaten with Abraham, appeared to Isaac and Jacob, and hosted a feast for Moses and the elders of Israel on top of Mount Sinai. As grand as these encounters were, they were always fleeting. These visits were like flashes of lightning, brilliant and then gone like smoke rising to the heavens.\u00a0Yet, with Jesus, it was different.\u00a0He was like the sun \u2014 warm, steady, and constant \u2014 the light of the world (John 8:12). When God became a man, it wasn\u2019t just a cameo appearance for nostalgic Christmas pageants to tug our heartstrings. He joined the human story and became its chief player \u2014 turning the plotline inside out. He was there in Jerusalem after the angels had departed and returned to their heavenly abode. God had come, and he was being carried about by two sleep-deprived parents as they wandered through those ancient, narrow streets desperate for someone to show them a bit of hospitality. What about all of these days, so many thousands of days, of which nothing at all is recorded for us? A veil of obscurity hides them from our gaze, but surely, He was there. God with us. He was there on overcast mornings and sweltering afternoons. He was there in the workshop where He learned carpentry from his father to feed his brothers and sisters. He was in the synagogue as a boy with the other children His age. Jesus was present at the funerals and the weddings of the villagers who inhabited those nondescript houses in the quiet town of Nazareth. God descended into the common. He immersed Himself in the ordinary. He walked alongside humanity in all of its brokenness and devastation. He suffered with us. ad\u00b7vent \/\u02c8ad\u02ccvent\/ the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event. Advent is a time to remember that luminous hour of Jesus\u2019 arrival and drink deeply of the truth that Jesus came and dwelt among us. He stayed with us. Jesus was our neighbor and our friend. He was the one who sold us tables and then sat beside us at the well. Of course, we are all painfully aware that Jesus is not here right now. He is no longer with us. Jesus offered a timeless, authoritative statement of what God is really like and how he desires to relate to men and women throughout all the ages. While Jesus is not physically present with us right now, he can make his dwelling in our hearts through his Spirit so that we can still walk in a close relationship with him. Perhaps you are reading these words, and you have never actually decided to trust in Jesus. Maybe you have spent many Christmas seasons in church but realize that your heart has grown distant from the Lord. No matter where we have come from,\u00a0advent is a time for us to draw closer to the fire.\u00a0It is a time to give our attention to the glory and the mystery of what began in a manger and will end with God coming and making his home among us again, forever. Search the Bible today. You can read the story of Jesus for yourself. Start in the Gospel of John.\u00a0Jesus\u2019 heart beats for us in every word written.\u00a0His story is your story, and he invites you to come to him today. Let him be God with you.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2396,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2394","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encounter.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}