Thursday, May 3, 2007
JC by Mikey Famiglietti
I was pondering on what Jesus meant to me and had a small but significant realization. I believe that Jesus was a normal human being just like the rest of us, but indeed a great prophet. But the difference between him and us is simply fear. Today we are constantly pumped with fear, whether it is future terrorist attacks or the oncoming event of World War 3. Our motivation to make a change we want to see is obsolete because of our fear of death. Jesus was not scared of death. He took the time to leave society…retreating to the wilderness to collect his many great thoughts and proposed them to the world when he returned to civilization. He was willing to die for what he truly believed in. He wanted to see change in the world because he felt something was not right. Jesus is the most glorified person that died for what he believed in, but I feel he was not the only person to do so. Jim Morrison, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King are all people I see on the same page as Jesus. They all were not afraid to be the change they wanted to see and they were willing to die for it. For thousands of years the world has been in chaos, violence about beliefs, money, and property. People die for what they believe in every passing moment and even though they may never be glorified throughout the world as Jesus is, they go to rest knowing their purpose in life and are the seeds of the change they wanted to see in this life.
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