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Source: A Reflection of Good Will taken from the book “Hope Never Dies”, April 2020.

In Jesus, the Pain, and the Origin of His Authority – The Power of Christ Within Us (2014), I point out that God is the Highest Foundation on which Jesus, the Master of masters, with His Authority, advises us in the New Testament (Luke 6:47-48) to build our solid dwelling: 

47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. 

48 They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on a rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.

Only then will we be able to cope with the spiritual, moral, and physical tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, that is, cope with everything by counting on the True Power of the Sublime Ruler of the Earth. 

Human beings’ greatest capital is their Accomplishing Faith and their unbeatable spirit when faced with the afflictions that still torment nations. To those who seek to anchor their lives in this sublime, safe harbor, I say, quite eloquently, that there is a Man at the helm: Jesus!

Tela: Arnold Friberg (1913-2010)

Therefore, let us dare to build the Home of God in the Souls, and the Supreme Creator will turn us into steady pillars of a more auspicious future:

12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the Temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of Heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.

13 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.  (Letter from Jesus to the Church in Philadelphia, in the Apocalypse 3:12-13)

José de Paiva Netto is a writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, composer, and poet. He is the President of the Legion of Good Will (LGW), effective member of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and of the Brazilian International Press Association (ABI-Inter). Affiliated to the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Writers of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Radio Broadcasters of Rio de Janeiro, and the Brazilian Union of Composers (UBC). He is also a member of the Academy of Letters of Central Brazil. He is an author of international reference in the concept and defense of the cause of Ecumenical Citizenship and Spirituality which, according to him, constitute “the cradle of the most generous values that are born of the Soul, the dwelling of the emotions and of the reasoning enlightened by intuition, the atmosphere that embraces everything that transcends the ordinary field of matter and comes from the elevated human sensitivity, such as Truth, Justice, Mercy, Ethics, Honesty, Generosity, and Fraternal Love.”