Oniwat otto siraru nai pilihan de salah?
It is easy to fall into a state
of hating someone; it’s just human nature to do so. As it has always been, it
is human nature to sin ever since Adam and Eve ate those damned apples. So if
that is the cause of why we humans are condemned to the high probability of
going to hell, then those apples had better be worth it. Actually, I feel that
it is not the case to ‘to sin is to be human’. It’s more accurate to say it as:
"It is the
ability to choose which makes us human." - Madeleine L'Engle
We choose to either succumb to
the devil’s wishes or God’s wishes. Believe it or not, it is as simple as that.
Therefore, every single day of our ordinary lives is about making that choice.
It’s not a multiple choice question like UPSR or the recently defunct PMR…it’s
simply choice (A) Satan or (B) God. What we always forget in making these
decisions at every juncture is the knowledge, awareness and judgment of what God
actually expects of us.
Let’s practice on two scenarios
to what actually see what choices we make and whether is has any alignment with
what God actually wants us to do.
Scenario 1: Vengeance
Your name is Machete, the woman
you love dearest was just shot in the head by an evil corporate figure that
looks like Mel Gibson. What do you do?
(A) Go
on an all out killing spree in order to avenge your fallen beloved…meet face to
face with Mel Gibson lookalike in a one-on-one shootout and sever his head with
a machete.
(B) Go
to Mel Gibson lookalike…look him straight in eyes, ask him why he had to do kill
and forgive him while at the same time asking God to forgive his sin. Choosing
this will probably end in Mel shooting you in the head while laughing out loud
but you leave fate in God’s hand.
Truthfully, at the brink of it
all, if it really comes down to it…a lot of humans would be choosing (A) simple
because it seems to provide more satisfaction in the quest of vengeance. But
believe me, that is not and I mean NOT a Godly thing to do. Although (B) is
ridiculously improbable, and we cannot comprehend the sense using human thought
about what is logic in choice (B), it simple means we lack the understanding of
why God is God and why he is ever forgiving.
“And when you stand praying, if you hold
anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive
you your sins.” - Mark 11:25
We cannot forgive one man for his
sins, and yet God is open to forgive everyone for any sin that they have committed.
I do mean; ANY sin – be it those who are blasphemous, rapists and even
murderers.
Scenario 2: Persecution
You live in a place where you are
persecuted for your faith in Jesus and in God. You’re accused of as infidels,
ignorant, malicious and full of evil intent when all you did was just living
your life. Your life is harassed and you are being challenged about your faith with
questions like the ones below:
When people say, “How is it possible that
you can have 3 gods in 1?”
You reply, “God chooses to intercede into
human life in different ways and in the Father, He is the almighty in heaven
who rules over everything, in the Son, He manifests Himself to be among us and
teach us so that we may comprehend His understanding of what He wants and
expects of us, and in the Holy Spirit, He manifests His strength and faith unto
those who believe in Him – to add the element of Godliness to our fragile
humanistic strength.”
If you opt for a sarcastic answer, like
what I sometimes do, it would just simply be, “He’s God, bro! He can choose to
be what He wants to be and manifest Him-Self into whatever form He wishes! But
He always has a plan; and the Trinity is an integral part of that universal
master plan - that only those who believe in Him and the Trinity would probably understand
a bit more about.”
With those answers people accuse you of trying to convert others, you are taken away from your family, punished and
tortured...or to the extent of even getting killed.
Would it not be easier or at
least more gratifying to fight back? An eye for an eye? But that is what we, as
humans think. It’s not exactly what God thinks. Remember someone called Christ?
He was persecuted, sentenced to die, tortured and carried his own cross to his
own death for telling the Truth. But God knows, just ‘telling’ it is not enough
to make us understand. Plus the fact that the attempt of 'telling' humankind about the Truth was made several times through all the earlier prophets. Coz we humans are ridiculously egotistical and dumb; we won’t notice the Truth even if it was right in front of us. Therefore, God used the
trauma effect on us. Put a Man through the most extreme suffering and pain, but
have that Man still say;
“Father, forgive
them, for they do not know what they do.” - Luke 23:34
He could have easily said
something like, “Damn you humans, now face the wrath of my Father!!!
Hahahahaha!!!!” Then lightning and thunder would strike and the entire world
was squashed in a blink of an eye. Do you ever for one second thought that He
could have actually said that and it actually happened? He could you know…but
He didn’t. Why is that so? Because what He decided to do, is what God wanted
Him to do and that in return, is what He EXPECTS all of us to do from that day
onwards.
So no matter what shithole of a
persecution you need to go through or endure, doing something like taking another life for example for the sake of God, for example…is not what exactly what God wants if you base it on what Christ had to do for us and what he SHOWED us.
But then again, all this is just
what I think. What I think…does not matter have to matter to you. It’s what you
think that actually matters and what you think, will determine what choices you make. Whether it's (A) or (B)...it's basically your choice that determines your fate.
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