Jesus Christ’s reality

To the editor:

As Easter approaches, two beliefs about Jesus Christ are at the forefront. First, that He was born, died and rose again the third day, or secondly, that everything written and spoken about Him is a fallacy.

To those who doubt or just plain dismiss Christ’s reality, is there no correlation between how people collectively treated each other, when the vast majority accepted what’s written in the Holy Bible and attempted to follow those precepts? Is the continuing harshness we read and hear about currently, between human beings, just a coincidence?

What sad evidence has been compiled as we’ve turned away from time-tested Christian principles! Included in such a list, would be: Increasing cases of STDs; abortions — most due to fornication and adultery; divorce becoming more commonplace; child and spouse abuse; sex trafficking; road rage, mass shootings, corruption in both the private and public sector, rapes, homicides, name calling and hatred towards those who don’t believe as we do, lack of forgiveness, spiritual illnesses, etc.

In many of those situations listed above, does anyone dare suppose that individuals who participated in them, prayed for God’s help to accomplish such an act? But if we don’t believe in God and Jesus Christ and in the power of prayer, then there are no restrictions, but whatever we can get away with.

Isn’t it time that we each strive to live as Jesus Christ showed so plainly in Holy Writ? For sure none of us are perfect, but it has been said, that the saddest thing of all is when we make excuses for our shortcomings, rather than attempting with divine help to, overcome them. It is never easy to always do what’s right, but that’s the price of discipleship, if we wish to be better children of God and to create a positive atmosphere of unfeigned kindness, respect and love.

For the time being, “the devil laugheth and his angels rejoice,” at how easily we can be distracted from doing good. We always have the option of a powerful miracle when we recognize that the forces of darkness can have no control over us, only as we allow it, whether ignorantly or on purpose.

May this holy season of the year, prompt us to read or read the Handbook and align ourselves with principles that will abundantly bless us one by one and the society we live in. No one knows when, but we are told that one day, ” … every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father” (Philippians 2:10-11).

Have a blessed Palm Sunday and Easter.

Leo R. Lindquist

Balaton