[JOYnet] Are we Christians?

[Prejomy Jose]

Hai all,

A few days back I saw in the newspaper that a young couple committed suicide, in Kollam Dt. The victims were an upcoming young Architect of 26 yrs and his wife (23 yrs) and seems to be financially sound, employed parents and moreover Christians (in name at least). I read it again and again and couldn’t find any reason for them to suicide, from the description given in the paper. This made me to think who I am. A Christian?

A Christian means one who is in Christ. 1Jn 2:6 says “One who is said to be in Christ shall walk in the same path Christ has walked.” (The quoted text may not be the same, as I do not have a bible in English with me.)

In Jn 11:21, Martha, the sister of Lazarus and Mary said to Jesus, “If you would have been here, my brother might have not died”.

The parents/brothers/sisters/children of several such above mentioned victims may be crying out – ‘Lord if you would have been here…..”

Now we are here as Christians and are supposed to walk through the path that Jesus led. Then why these type of suicides are happening around us.

Can’t we do something? Or whether we have decided it as somebody else’ responsibility? Of course each one of us have our own Personal Mission. But still is something missing?

Can we really be called as Christians?

Prejomy Jose
Abu Dhabi





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