> How many times have we been given the chance to get a great message and this message is minimized when we look at the imperfections of human behavior?
> Gandhi taught us the great example of peaceful resistance, and this was minimized by paying attention to the other human habits that we were not pleased with.
> Mother Teresa also left a great message “Don’t invite me to an anti war protest. I would rather be invited to a pro peace meeting”. This message is minimized at the fact that she taught people to accept suffering.
> And like the above, I can give you many examples of people with great messages on one side, and on the other those that minimize those messages with other acts. And the worst of this is that we fall into this game also and therefore we participate in this effect.
> Let’s talk about the message that Jesus left us. And I’m not doing this to convert you into a follower of Jesus, but I do this so that you are aware that there are important messages that we must avoid minimizing.
> Before hand, if I offend you, I ask for you forgiveness. This article is being written with all due respect to you the reader and with all due respect for Jesus and the followers of Jesus.
> On several occasions I have seen that people believe that Jesus came to Earth to die for us. If I were to ask these people what was the message that Jesus left us, I’m sure they would say something like this “The message was that we should live a life full of sacrifices no matter what the suffering we could experience. Jesus was capable of suffering so much pain and it is fair that I support a small amount of suffering in comparison.” Sadly this is the wrong answer. Jesus did not come to Earth to suffer (I can hear you already yelling out “How could you say that!”.
> Jesus came to give us a message. The message was “love one another like I have loved you all”. That’s the great and grand message that Jesus came to give us!
> You, the reader, are probably thinking “So than, why did Jesus have a horrible death?”
I say to you that everything in life has a reason and some day I will write about this in another article.
> Many times we act like the joke that says:
There are two friends drinking at a bar. All of a sudden a dark creeping person enters the bar and asks the barman for a shot of whiskey. He drinks it and then asks for another. He finally drinks a total of 5 shots in a very short time. Then he starts to walk on the wall, upside down on the ceiling, and finally flies out the window. The two fellows that were there watching were amazed. One of them speaks out to the other and says “Did you see that?” And his friend answers back “Yeah, the guy left without paying the bill!”
> I think this story is great to illustrate what I have already written above and tried to communicate with you. There is an important message and we pay too much attention to those things that are useless.
> I’m not saying that the way Jesus died was trivial, what I’m saying is that there was something of much greater importance than the death of Jesus. And that is that one message that escapes us within the confusion that we live in.
> Concluding, be alert to important messages and/or events. Don’t get distracted by acts that minimize the main message.