The half bad and the half good!

 

The beautiful poem 'Two Kinds of People' by Wheeler Wilcox brings out the great analogy of the good and the bad divide. It says:

"There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;

Just two kinds of people, no more I say.

Not the sinner and saint, for it's well understood

The good are half bad and the bad are half good.

 Not the rich and the poor, for to rate a man's wealth,

You must first know the state of his conscience and health. . ."

The problem of bad is that it is embedded in the good. This is why people often mistake good for bad and vice versa. One of the characteristics of the God of the Bible is Love. The Bible says, “God is love.” But if we have to find one word that captures the essence of God’s nature, it is 'holiness'. It is written “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts”, And again it says, 'Be ye holy, because I am holy'. This means anything bad or evil cannot survive in holiness as much as good does.

God’s holiness makes us unreachable, hence religion suggests techniques, advice and rituals to work out our salvation. But sadly, religious dogmas don’t guarantee salvation. The reason being it gives us vague assumptions that through constant births and rebirths, at some given point, we will attain salvation with our ongoing religious rituals, giving us no definite assurance. And some religious beliefs even say, it is the will of the sovereign one to grant Salvation or withhold man from finding it.

There are countless suggestions to reach God, but no one has given definite assurance like Jesus, in human history. Coming week, the world will celebrate Good Friday. Have you ever wondered why it is called ‘good’? The reasons being He was a holy God who is “the way, the truth and the life”, was in human form embodying innocence. He healed the blind, deaf, mute, lepers, and all kinds of sickness and raised people from the dead, but ended up being crucified on the cross. He was God who lived among us as a human, predicting the details of His death and resurrection on the third day. This is what we celebrate as Easter, as we know, globally. He said, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” Do you believe this?

One may wonder, how does His death and resurrection help human kind? It is because of the hope He gives in this life and after our death too. We find salvation when we believe and accept Him as our Saviour. It is in the Person Jesus; this is achieved and not in any religion including Christianity, as we often misunderstand. He died and rose on the third day, which makes Him a living God. The Bible says, "For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.". I highly recommend you to refer to the Bible first and to further feed your curiosity, you can read the writings of Cornelius Tacitus, the finest Roman Historian and Josephus, the Greek historian, whose writings are accepted worldwide.

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