Tomorrow is Easter when we remember the birth and the life of Jesus leading to his death and the resurrection – this is being considered as the most important message to all people. When Jesus was here on earth the message of the Cross on which Jesus was crucified and thereafter the resurrection if only his teachings are taken and his death and his resurrection isn’t taken – would be incomplete or simply seeing Jesus as incomplete and not as a whole. The story of Easter took shape and form after years of study beginning from his first disciple Peter till the end of the story in the Revelations. Not because Jesus story was not clear to his people, while he spent his life on earth in human form. This has taken for his disciples so long to understand everything from the beginning of the birth of Jesus to his death and resurrection to piece it together one by one. We will see it in three stories starting from the Book of Genesis with an example to a man like Alexander the Great and we can conclude by saying that this is not a history lesson as opposed to many more history lessons of Empires and Emperors in the past.
Let me begin with the story of Alexander the Great – everyone knows him as a great conqueror who became an emperor at a very young age we learn in history. This is about the story of Alexander – Alexander once was in a desert after many victories when he was extremely thirsty and water wasn’t available. His trusted lieutenants set out to bring water and had to go very far. They saw a small stream of water flowing so they picked and left immediately to give for Alexander. Alexander when he saw the water in a small pot – he looked at others who also would be thirsty like him in the desert. He raised the pot and turned it all upside down. The message was clear, if no one else can have it then I too will not have it and emptied the pot to the ground. The message is – leadership is not about you after you are a leader; it’s about others to groom them as leaders.
We shall see three stories from the Bible illustrating the example from the previous paragraph and I’ll show you the Resurrection and the Life of Jesus different from all the other stories in history and from other stories in the Bible. How personal and real is the Life of Jesus from his disciples and all other predecessors before him told by Jesus Himself in his lifetime and in His resurrection. The first story is about Obedience. Long story short Adam and Eve leave the place reserved for them by God and God says to Eve that he will put enmity between her child and God’s child. The story of Disobedience to God left Adam and Eve to separate from God and what follows is the wish of God.
The next story is from Ruth. After Ruth’s mother-in-law had her two sons die due to illness, she decides to leave Ruth and her other daughter-in-law and go back to her home, which she and her two sons, two daughters-in-law left because of persecution in their home and danger to the lives of her two sons after her husband had died. When Ruth’s mother-in-law wants to leave back to her home after her sons die alone, Ruth pleads if she can go along with her mother-in-law too. In the first story from Genesis we see disobedience and in the story of Ruth we can see Ruth wants to be of service to her mother-in-law because the mother-in-law is now very old to live all by herself. In the story of Ruth we see a very practical person like in our example of Alexander. In the story from Genesis Adam and Eve lack this of being a practical person just as Ruth. In our example it was a man – in this case it is about two women with opposing natures – the stories are the same as we read in a class in our history lesson.
The third story is about Jesus and a woman he meets at the well. In the above two examples of Bible stories and in our example taken from history it was about leadership, persecution and death – the Life of Jesus is different from the rest which we know it as Resurrection and celebrate it as Easter. All three women beginning from Genesis till, Death of Jesus in the New Testament - each one telling different stories how God’s Will on earth is fulfilled.
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
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