Suffering demands answers. We feel it’s unfair to experience the pain or crisis we are going through. Unfortunately, we overlook the fact that we live in a dark world, filled with wrongdoings known as sin. Difficulties, hurts and disappointments are the different blotches left in our life’s canvas. “Desire” alone is not the culprit as our religious philosophy dictates. It’s our moral failures that add fuel to the fire, worsening our situation. We try all humanly efforts to control the intensity of the crisis.
In a crisis or suffering, money takes the center stand as some of us believe it is the gateway to solve all of life’s problems. We are driven to acquire it at all costs, by all means, and maintain wealthy connections. In times of sickness, we believe in visiting religious shrines expecting a supernatural intervention. In the pantheistic worldview, we use gods for our convenience, regardless of the fact whether we have gained god’s attention. Truth and answers are always found abandoned, under the rubble of cheap belief systems, superstitions, myths, and evil practices. Lies are thriving because its benefits from any means. Witchcraft, occult, and painful religious practices today appear as solution providers and fail midway. They come with a big price, but are unable to help or deliver a person.
Do we have a true answer? 2000 years ago, a man named Jesus appeared in human history, as a fulfilment of prophecies written thousands of years ago, as a solution provider. But no one is willing to accept His claim irrespective of all that He did, the marvelous lifestyle He led, and His resurrection is the gamechanger of all human problems. The twelve disciples who were with Jesus travelled years later to different parts of the globe. Their priority was not to promote Christianity as a religion, but to share Jesus as savior to the wretched conditions of human life and to have hope after death.
They echoed the message of Jesus who commanded people to repent from all sins and accept Him as a Savior and follow Him. All the disciples were prepared to be tortured to death for their faith in Christ and what they experienced in Him. And they were so kindhearted, that they risked their life to talk about the solution to problems of life and death. We fail to connect with the savior, instead we try to find all possibilities that look like a solution. When we have accepted His salvation in our hearts and have fellowship with Him, He turns our history to victory. He indwells our heart, transforms our perspective and helps us in time of need. Crisis no longer has power to hurt or break us. It just builds our hope strong in Him to find purpose and direction in life.
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