Sijo Chemmannur
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"Take this and share it among yourselves" Luke 22:17
It is an irony to note that when science tells the nature of Universe is ever expanding, the reverse is reciprocated in the case of human minds. We are becoming more self centered and defiant to see the difficulties of others near us. Our grand parents might be able to tell us a world which is not what we see now. A world of more social interactions and togetherness. Now, we are confined to our own nuclear family and try to find false happiness by accumulating all the material wealth we can.
There is increased inequality in the world today than a decade ago. People from some of the world's poorest countries like Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic are struggling hard to make enough money to eat and survive. Millions are dying yearly with malnutrition, malaria, cholera, diarrhea and war. I some countries,
more than half of the mothers delivering baby are dying on the labor room or after 2 days. On the contrary, more than half of the world's wealth are confined to 1% of rich billionaires. The people who have money craves more and those have power wants to accumulate and store.
We are in an age where there is an unprecedented exploitation environment and natural resources. Unplanned deforestation and humongous use of carbon fuels have already actuated unwanted global climate change. Alarm signals sent by scientists are casually ignored about disappearing beaches, rise of sea levels and melting of polar ice glaciers. Capitalization and globalization have more unnoticed consequences in third world countries where infants near a mining coal are dying due to metal poisoning or contaminated water. Who will responsible of the death of those people who die with hunger and without clear water?
At the time of last supper, Jesus Christ took the cup of wine and bread, gave thanks to God and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves". If we carefully notice, it is the perfect harmony of God and human, with Jesus Christ as the moderator. Jesus Christ provides the gift of God to us. He gave His own body and blood, and told to take and share among ourselves. The gift of God is not to be stagnant within ourselves, but to flow to others. The love of God is for all humans, not to a particular nation, culture, creed, race, religion or gender. A concept of world as one country and all the people as its citizens. An ideology of 'sarva-loga-kudumbam' (entire world is a family) by Mahathma Gandhi.
We have to rediscover the joy of sharing. A saint told, "when I pray, I see the whole world, the people from all the nations. I see the God provides for all the needs for the world to run daily. But, humans are selfish and not sharing these gifts to others". In the midst of modern philosophies, where else can we put Jesus Christ other than a proponent of equality and justice? Jesus is in the side of the poor, mourn, hunger and thirst. "Give to everyone who asks of you" (Luke 6:30). He want us to be the salt and light of this world (Matthew 5:13,14). It is our responsibility to serve others and keep the light burning and preserve our saltiness. We should have the eye to see the needs of the world around us and ears to hear it. We should conserve our natural resources for our future generations too. How beautiful this world will be if we do what Christ has told us to do? Let us be people who takes from God and share it with all the people around us.
It is an irony to note that when science tells the nature of Universe is ever expanding, the reverse is reciprocated in the case of human minds. We are becoming more self centered and defiant to see the difficulties of others near us. Our grand parents might be able to tell us a world which is not what we see now. A world of more social interactions and togetherness. Now, we are confined to our own nuclear family and try to find false happiness by accumulating all the material wealth we can.
There is increased inequality in the world today than a decade ago. People from some of the world's poorest countries like Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic are struggling hard to make enough money to eat and survive. Millions are dying yearly with malnutrition, malaria, cholera, diarrhea and war. I some countries,
more than half of the mothers delivering baby are dying on the labor room or after 2 days. On the contrary, more than half of the world's wealth are confined to 1% of rich billionaires. The people who have money craves more and those have power wants to accumulate and store.
We are in an age where there is an unprecedented exploitation environment and natural resources. Unplanned deforestation and humongous use of carbon fuels have already actuated unwanted global climate change. Alarm signals sent by scientists are casually ignored about disappearing beaches, rise of sea levels and melting of polar ice glaciers. Capitalization and globalization have more unnoticed consequences in third world countries where infants near a mining coal are dying due to metal poisoning or contaminated water. Who will responsible of the death of those people who die with hunger and without clear water?
At the time of last supper, Jesus Christ took the cup of wine and bread, gave thanks to God and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves". If we carefully notice, it is the perfect harmony of God and human, with Jesus Christ as the moderator. Jesus Christ provides the gift of God to us. He gave His own body and blood, and told to take and share among ourselves. The gift of God is not to be stagnant within ourselves, but to flow to others. The love of God is for all humans, not to a particular nation, culture, creed, race, religion or gender. A concept of world as one country and all the people as its citizens. An ideology of 'sarva-loga-kudumbam' (entire world is a family) by Mahathma Gandhi.
We have to rediscover the joy of sharing. A saint told, "when I pray, I see the whole world, the people from all the nations. I see the God provides for all the needs for the world to run daily. But, humans are selfish and not sharing these gifts to others". In the midst of modern philosophies, where else can we put Jesus Christ other than a proponent of equality and justice? Jesus is in the side of the poor, mourn, hunger and thirst. "Give to everyone who asks of you" (Luke 6:30). He want us to be the salt and light of this world (Matthew 5:13,14). It is our responsibility to serve others and keep the light burning and preserve our saltiness. We should have the eye to see the needs of the world around us and ears to hear it. We should conserve our natural resources for our future generations too. How beautiful this world will be if we do what Christ has told us to do? Let us be people who takes from God and share it with all the people around us.
