Ruthla Aier
Spring Buds Children Home Dimapur
As soon as a child is born in this world, he/she is labeled. Lucky, unlucky child, privileged, unprivileged child and even to some extend unrecognized by those group of people who talks about love, acceptance, and equality in the so-called pulpit because the child was born with a single parent, or is adopted and because they have a tight hand under the rules. We become cynical about their parent's upbringing and blame the parents.
As the child grows and enters the academic world, they are faced with lots of challenges, and sometimes in the process, they get less than expected or fail, the teacher gets the blame, the guide gets the blame because they continuously reminded them to study and work hard. Parents become cynical about the teachers attitude towards their child and blame the teacher, the school. On the other hand, when the child is naughty, mischievous, and playful, the teacher gets irritated, spanks the child give less attention to the child, become cynical about the parents, and blames the parents.
The child graduates and is unemployed, they become cynical about the government and blames the leaders and voices out like giants in social media sitting under the comfy of their parents hard earned chair sipping a cup of tea for #insta #teatime #hot weather stuff post while their parents come home with spades and Dao from the field.
We are told that we are all born sinners because of your ancestor’s sin, but never told that Jesus Christ who died on the cross for us forgave it. Until we got some idea from the church. Later we are told by the church that we are saved by God’s grace. As we mature, we start to be cynical about that very church that gave us the good news about the saving act of Jesus Christ and blames the church for our spiritual dryness.
We need someone to blame, to point our fingers at something is because it has been practiced from generations to generations. From the time of creation, Eve blamed the serpent, Adam blamed Eve, and Cain blamed Abel, which goes on when we have no one left to blame but Jesus Christ who died on the cross for us.
With the name tag on our people as Christian we should be practicing Christ behavior of love, care, kindness and compassion instead we chose the Pharisees behaviors, trying every possible ways to blame someone for our failure, anger, hatred just because we are too high like the Pharisees whose ego blinded them to see who really Jesus Christ was.
As we begin to countdown for Easter, what are we going to do, continue blaming the Pharisees for nailing Jesus Christ on the Cross or celebrated the victory the Jesus had over Satan by rising on the third day. Let this Passion Week wasted in blaming the people for crucifying Jesus on the cross less we end up nailing Jesus Christ Everay Day. Let us not nail Him again by focussing on the blame that put him to cross but let us focus on the victory, remembering his love and sacrifice and thank Him for His saving act. Let us consider our thought before we blame this Easter so that this celebration be fully celebrated for its rightful purpose, if not it will just be another social affair/event where we will go to check in for #Instagram, Facebook, and Whatsapp. To ponder on how politically incorrect the preacher’s sermon is and blames the whole thing because we are not rightly dressed for the occasion (because we need to put the blame on someone).
