The Unconditional Hope

Our county is in the severe crisis at the moment. No one knows where the county is heading for! Have you ever seen the politicians like this who changes their speech in every other day? Years were passed by in the hope for the Constitution but output was nil even after spending millions of dollar in drafting the constitution. Therefore, I would term this decade as the most tragic that Nepal had ever faced in the history. The tussle between the opposition parties and government seem to be a never-ending drama. In one side, the government is threatening to bring full budget without political consensus which most believe will ignite confrontation only. At the same time, Oppositions have already chalked out agitation plans against government.  Therefore it can be assumed that the Maoist turned to be an utter failure in running the government after leading the simple and uneducated people in the people’s war for almost a decade. What happened to them who lost their life during the course of war? I would like to highlight some of the public voices here in the blog.

 

Here are some of the painful memories of the war who have lost their dear ones during the insurgency in the hope for betterment/welfare.

“We do not need another war to snatch away our dear ones; we hope there will never be any war in the country.” - Birsha who had lost his four-year-old son during the war said, “War took away the children of the poor people like us and the leaders who were against each other during the war have come together now. We do not feel any change in our lives, so sacrificing our lives was a heavy price we paid for.”

“We have lost everything, now we do not even have tears left in our eyes to weep for the loss.” Lamented Suka who lost her right hand in the war.

Simple Nepalese were betrayed and cheated by their own people. Now I have some different illustration for you all. People give hope which would not come true in reality. Nevertheless, here is the true incident that happened in the history.

In fact this is not a fairy tale, but the fact. This is about the Person whose name was Jesus who spreads the hope to the hopeless. He was born in 2000 years ago in the city of Bethlehem, now in Palestine. While he was in thirty he started to visit people in nearby places and started to tell about the Kingdom of God. His teachings became like a boom to the high profile people of that generation. The religious leaders did not like to hear from him as He was speaking about the fact about God. His own people disliked him and his teachings. As it is obvious that people cannot digest the truth, so happened to the people of that time. He spoke about the truth and told people to follow the truth but people did not like the Truth which he himself was. Finally after completing three and half years on the earth, he was taken to the Cross in the accusation of provoking people toward the false teachings. Now years have been passed away. His words of truth are still a fresh. People have been changed trough his teachings. He did not promise like a human being or put any condition in return of the Hope. He simply offered his hope of eternity to those who could put his/her trust in him disregard of cast and color. This is the Unconditional Hope.  

Politicians demand a life of our dear ones; Jesus demands fromus a complete changed person. Therefore, do not fall into trap of human promises who fail in one way or the other but God’s promise is different from others.  He knows the plans for you and me. And they are for our welfare and not for harm and to give us a future with hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)