I read the whatsapp messages that I receive every day now and I only see complaints from someone, another one, from several, exposing how much they are suffering because they are forcibly isolated by the social distancing. On days like these, we can only look at our own sufferings, the other's difficulties, we don't care, especially if he/she is an elderly alone person.
And why not? This is our human nature exposed, we passively look at the suffering of others. Some are even moved, but soon they accelerate the pace.
I am always amazed when I read or hear that "we become better human beings when we have children of our own". This is a great fallacy because if it were the case, we would live in heaven, there would be no hunger and abandoned people on the streets around us.
Human beings prefer to deceive themselves, thinking that these are aspects derived from other conditions. But the purest truth is that we just change direction and focus on our sinful, greedy and petty nature. We become even more selfish, greedy and self-interested because we think that we can transmit some wealth to our descendants and forget that we are only leaving them an inheritance with earthly values that will not guarantee us eternity, in any way.
However, Jeremiah in the text above described Jerusalem's pain after it was devastated. This abstraction also leads us to think about the sufferings of Jesus Christ, who was nailed alive on a cross, after suffering lashes, receiving a crown of thorns and carrying a wooden cross to the Golgotha, certainly getting physically exhausted for doing so.
Jesus Christ invites us to "kill" our human nature on the cross, together with him. It is difficult to accept this condition of total surrender. We were supposed to be there, but He gave himself up for us without reservation, without thinking of himself. He thought for everyone, "... so that everyone who believes in Him does not perish, but has eternal life." John 3: 16b
Jesus Christ invites us to be resurrected with Him, receiving eternal life, for He arose from the dead to LIFE. Jesus Christ is risen, hallelujah.
Look and meditate. This Easter, the beautiful words and the poems that move us do not replace the truth of the Cross and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Take few minutes to talk to Him and say, 'Jesus Christ, thank you so much for making my pain your pain. Thank you for dying in my place. Thank you for having risen to give me the guarantee of eternal life. Jesus Christ I do love you, above all things, and I want to follow you. ' Amen
