“I immerse you into the water for repentance, but after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will immerse us in the Holy Spirit and fire.” Matthew, 3:11.

Understanding that the knowledge of the Law operates the liberation of minds tied to personalist processes, in dark strongholds of ignorance and corruption, the forerunner John the Baptist can be interpreted, according to his wise and just declarations, with the very law of justice revealed to his people. Teaching us that discipline precedes spontaneity.

Thus, with the spiritual enlightenment of our inner selves, we will acquire sacred values ​​of indulgence and, in order for us to build on that divine clarity, it will be necessary to educate the will, to heal secular psychic illnesses that accompany us through successive lives. To do this, we need to start with the discipline of ourselves and the continence of our impulses. Let us put out, then, the fire of impulsiveness that impels us to unthinkable acts or the unreasonable complaint and move forward with the support of constructive tolerance because if today we are unable to carry out the task that the Lord has entrusted to us, we will make it tomorrow with greater difficulties for the necessary review.

Thus, we will be able to dimension the role of the precursor John the Baptist, making his paths straight, preparing the way of the Lord. He himself gave testimony of what he preached by undergoing beheading to rescue what he had done when incarnated as the prophet Elijah.

Reincarnation is the way of the great light, so let us love and work; let us work and serve, therefore, with each new existence we will take a step on the path of progress, and we will strip ourselves of all impurities, when the time comes that we will no longer need the tests of bodily life. We understand, then, that all Spirits tend to perfectibility and God provides us with the means to achieve it with the tests of life on Earth.

When we are conscious, we find in the doctrine of reincarnation a consoling hope. Love, has its splendor in the cosmic consciousness, because - as the divine Light burning in the heart of the creature - it is capable of transforming everything for the good, in the sublime and unlimited expansion of potentials, generating fields of happiness, setting the creative force of God, that nothing is more than faith, a powerful and unbeatable force in the vision of the Spirit that is no longer moved by appearances or games of personal interests.

Recognizing that every evolutionary effort leads to value by adding notes of effective learning to classes, John the Baptist was the missionary of repentance. However, while respecting the universal order, we must remember Jesus' teaching on his cousin: "Among those born from women, no one greater than John the Baptist was raised, yet whoever is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.". Matthew, 11: 11-14.

John the Baptist was the voice that cried out in the desert; worker of the first hour, he was the harsh symbol of the truth that pulls out the strongest roots in the world, so that the Kingdom of God prevails in the hearts. He expressed the austere discipline that precedes the spontaneity of love and the struggle for the shadows of the path to be undone. John was the first sign of the active Christian, at war with the very imperfections of his inner world, in order to establish in himself the sanctuary of his realization with Christ. For this reason, Jesus said about John: “of those born of women, John the Baptist is the greatest of all”.

He assumed the responsibility of opening the Evangelical Age to humanity, becoming the symbol of the Christian who sacrificed himself for the truth and his conscience framed the evolutionary difference between him and Jesus. It is incumbent upon us to point out that, in the rough expressions of his life, he received the confession of sinners, plunging them, symbolically, in the Jordan River, while Jesus - the Bread that came down from Heaven, the Light of the World, the Path, the Truth and Life - acted out of love and mercy, proposing the new man (renewal).

Let us wash the Spirit of errors, as we also set out for reincarnation with the purpose of purifying ourselves, that is, changing thoughts and concepts for good. Willing to adopt purposes worthy of repentance, we will set out for a new life as a Spirit, who still on the Spiritual plane, surrenders itself confident and hopeful, to the new endeavor in the reincarnation field.

To repent is to walk to heaven. We learn from Jesus, that God is present in all the bins of the universe, especially in the depths of each one. It is true religion, in which good is done at all times and under any circumstances and without a specific time. John prepared the way for Jesus to give us the key to the Kingdom of Heaven, and to teach us the path to achieve personal harmony by establishing this kingdom in our hearts.

The evangelist John, in chapter 3, verse 30, clarifies: "It is necessary that he grows and I decrease." We need to let the Master grow in us, but for that we need to decrease, that is, adjust the personality to the standards of love at work, cooperation and simplicity because the sweet Rabbi is the liberator of our lives when we are willing to live spontaneously for the good of all.

John provides us with substantial doctrinal reflections found today in Spiritism. The Gospel is spontaneity when personal sacrifice is no longer characterized by constraint or coercion. The “come to me”, the “be of good cheer of Christ” are loving appeals, a balsam to predispose beings from rude evolutionary learning to the highest and most coherent states in intimate life.

Returning to Matthew in chapter 3, verse 11, we understand that the plunge into the Spirit, represents the harmony we have with the purifying stages that govern us, where the redeemed Benefactors of our earthly community remain. Fire, contrary to bad human impressions, is the moral force that burns and illuminates through the emanation of the pacified conscience and in the service of God. Able to transform everything and everyone, promoting as we can see in the history of Christianity, in which converts voluntarily became living torches, consuming themselves in love, renunciation, faith and humility to clarify and renew the narrow standards of the world.

Even today, enrolled in the school of spiritual learning, we are daily called upon to reexamination of the importance of reincarnation, confessing to ourselves, the mistakes made, feeding the firm purpose of overcoming them. It is necessary that we activate the repentance, repairing the errors so that we are not only left with feelings, but work, because each one will receive according to his works.

Faced with the proposals that open us up on the plane of conscience as a result of a guilty past, the Spirit when engaged in sincere repentance, induced to the renewing effort, will definitely help in the imbalances of the soul. Therefore, turning to spiritual interests, valuing others and changing trends in the effort to improve intimately, we are adjusting ourselves to the true roadmap for liberation, characterized by the One who is the Path, the Truth and the Life.

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