This is unfair! This world is unfair!
There is a claim for justice that grows day by day in the heart of
people!
We can see protesting posts on Facebook, in magazines, newspaper,
posters and media in general. This is a kind of yeast and when it touches an
unsatisfied heart it grows to great proportion and creates a domino effect in
people’s souls.
I do not want to discuss the validity of the protests because most of
them have reasons for being. But on this Easter week one sentence comes to my
mind, “the Just paying for the unjusts”.
Isn’t it what a worker feels when the tax is taken from his salary? and
right after he sees in the news that polititians are misusing the resources and
there are not basic needs supplied for the population. Or when he pays taxes
while others live on them? Isn’t it just like it that an honest taxpayer feels
when realizes that so many wrong things are being done?
More than a sentence, a scenario comes to my mind. He, the Just is on
the cross “the Just paying for the unjusts”. In this scene He could have
shouted “This is unfair! I am paying for something I did not do. I am being
punished for being good. I am here because even being God, I was more a human
being than anyone will ever be! I am being humiliated for loving. They desire
my death because they envy me. Because they cannot stand seing someone doing
things aside from the patterns of religion and of the politically correct. Yes,
this is unfair! It is unfair that I am between two criminals when I have just
done good. It is unfair that they chose to release a famous thief when they
could have given me a chance of escaping of an undeserved punishment.It is
unfair to see several people that would flatter me days before and now these
same ones call me bad names with anger because of those who now how to
manipulate the masses. It was just a week ago when they received me into
Jerusalem with palms, nice words and songs and now they hate me and put me to
die outside town. It is unfair to feel abandoned by friends that had been with
me for several years and now, in my most difficult time, almost all of them are
silent and distant from me. From them I just get the silence. It is unfair to
hear somene saying enphatically that he will not let anything bad happed to you
and, in the first opportunity, he denies his own words and even knowing of my
existance. Yes, this is all unfair! And for being unfair you deserve God to
eternaly protest against you. Yes, all of you! You are the criminals. You are
all criminals because you are quiet while injustice is being commited! You, in
silence and ommision, are as guilty as the ones commiting the injustice.That is
so unfair!
It did not happen just that day. It has always been this way. He could
have shouted all those words from the cross, while he would still have strength
to pronunce them. He could have agitated the hearts even more. He could have
opted for adding this yeast of insatisfaction. But he did not do it! He did not
do it because he did not want to. Because his eyes were above all those
circumstances. What fed him was more powerful than hate or even what we call
justice. Even being humiliated, wronged, abandoned, he looked to his Father, he
looked to himself. He looked to all around him with compassionate eyes, with
humanity, the humanity of the God-man and the man-God. Humans around looked at
him like animals, like vampires whishing blood. He looked back in a different
way.
My wish is that in this Easter week our feelings can be the same as
Jesus’ when he said to the Father, “In your hands I put my life. To you I give my spirit.” eiv - 26.3.2013
“ For Christ also suffered once
for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.”
1.Peter 3:18a NVI
“For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the
Pharisees and the teachers of the law…” Matthew 5:20
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