Thoughts for another day

May 14, 2012

Today's verse: Lk. 23:23. And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

In all these years of life, I've learnt one thing clearly and that is, the forces of evil or bad are often stronger than we would want them to be.  It's so easy to get into a bad habit no matter what it be; whether taking drugs or getting into immoral acts or anything which is eventually going to bring us into both disrepute and trouble.   

On the other hand we rather struggle to keep on the narrow good path.  Take an example: in an examination center where supervision is lax, all around we see students copying etc.  and we're so much led to copy too.  It takes a lot to refrain when every cell in the brain is screaming to go ahead and copy.  In the office where we work, we see so many of our colleagues pilfer stuff home including toilet paper and it's so hard for us to stick to our principles and not do it.  What fools we think, we are, to unnecessarily pay money for staplers, paper, etc. when they're freely available in the office.

Always realize that the bad needs no push to get into.  In our Scripture today, people are witnessing the trial of Jesus at the hands of Pilate.  Many don't even know the charges framed against Him, but yet when Pilate states that he will release Him, they pour out their voices in unison asking that He be crucified.  And the thing to be considered is that, their voices prevail.  So also we see 'evil' prevailing in our society.  We forget it's in our hands to stop it, if we but raise our voice against it, but do we do that: rather we raise our voices against the good seeking as it were, to put an end to it. That's how the good is silenced and then we blame others, exactly how Jesus was crucified and then they must have blamed the chief priests, etc. little realizing that the addition of their own voices to the others' also multiplied the cacophony and brought about the death of the 'Messiah'.   Time we realized our faults and corrected them before they prevail and make monsters out of us which fail to see the good that is for us and destroy it.