“El plan de Dios es que experimentemos un amor alimentado por su propio amor y practicado con sus límites prescritos. Piense a qué se parece el amor aparte de Dios. Millones de vidas son lastimadas diariamente en el nombre del amor, incluso hasta unas pocas vidas probablemente devastadas en su escuela hoy por desagradables notas para romper relaciones amorosas que son dejadas en las taquillas. El amor quizás haga que el mundo gire, pero el amor erróneo nos da mareos. El amor está en el corazón del gran plan de Dios para nosotros y nuestro mundo. La intención de Dios es que experimentemos su amor: un amor sagrado. Tenemos el tipo de amor correcto para pasar a otros cuando experimentamos su amor (1 Juan 4.19). ¿Qué tiene que ver todo esto con el sufrimiento? Todo. Como ve, cuando los escépticos afirman que un Dios bueno nos haría escoger solamente el bien, ignoran completamente lo que es el bien a los ojos de Dios. El bien comprende una elección. Es una vida voluntariamente y totalmente vivida para Dios aun cuando esa decisión es dura y costosa. Es un amor de Dios y para Dios que nos lleva a través de las más duras batallas de la vida. Cometemos un error mortal cuando pensamos que un amor aparte de Dios es todo lo que necesitamos para conducirnos a través de los momentos duros de la vida.”
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Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias was born in India in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. While pursuing a career in business management, his interest in theology grew; subsequently, he pursued this study during his undergraduate education. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Well-versed in the disciplines of comparative religions, cults, and philosophy, he held the chair of Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary for three and a half years.
He has multiple other doctorates and degrees from a variety of colleges and seminaries.
For 35 years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the president's cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Center for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. At the invitation of the President of Nigeria, he addressed delegates at the First Annual Prayer Breakfast for African Leaders held in Mozambique.
Dr. Zacharias has direct contact with key leaders, senators, congressmen, and governors who consult him on an ongoing basis. He has addressed the Florida Legislature and the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Texas, and has twice spoken at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York, which marks the beginning of the UN General Assembly each year. As the 2008 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, he gave addresses at the White House, the Pentagon, and The Cannon House.
Commentator Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time."