In the season of Easter, one song always touches my heart as
a season bird. In Myanmar, there is a
bird called “Ook Awe”, has charming voice. The bird sings “Ook Awe, Ook Awe- - -Ook Awe, Ook Awe”, we can hear this voice under the scourging heat in
dry summer. Some people named it “Summer Bird”. Their singing voices made people’s
hearts to recall old memories.
Likewise, one song comes into my heart in the season of
Easter entitled
“Were you
there when they crucified my Lord?”
Was I there when Jesus was crucified? Were I there - -? Were
we there --? We were not there surely in
those days. Nevertheless, we are still
nailing our Savior Jesus nowadays.
1 John 3:15; “Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a
murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.” We are still doing hate not only our siblings
but also neighbors, ethnic groups. We make a war at home. We make a war at
society. We make a war in the world. We are still nailing Him on the cross by
our pride and proud and demanding rights.
Another lyric from that song touches my heart is “Were you
there when they laid Him in a tomb?” We
still make Him laid in the tomb by our beliefs, concepts and bias. Though God gives us two ears to listen to both
sides of the stories only one ear hears, two eyes to see both sides but bias makes one
eye blind. God gives us one mouth to speak loud for fair and just but we speak
loud for our desires instead of our needs. Are we still laid Him in the tomb by our
natural inclinations, beliefs, concepts and bias among family, society and
nations? We are still laying Him in a tomb
by spreading gossips, propagandize one sided messages on media and social media
like a big stone which in front of the tomb.
The last line touches my heart from the song is “Are you
there when he rose up from the grave?” We were not there when Christ rose up
from the grave. Someone blocks a
big stone in your way like a stone which in front of the grave of Jesus Christ.
Pray to Jesus. He has the power to rise up from the death and open the grave
stone. Jesus will help you and raise you from your dead life in a tomb.
We believe and we have many testimonies that Jesus is living
God, eternal God. Let Him walk with you, with us. Without Easter, Christmas
celebration for Jesus’ birth could not last for centuries until today. Jesus arose from the death.
HAPPY EASTER !
JuJuLay. (25
/ 3/ 2017)
