WHY I HAVE TO SUFFER?

By Daniel kabiriko -
WHY ME?
Kabiriko Daniel's Views on Suffering..
Most of us when we suffer wonder, why me. Why do I have to suffer?

The meaning of life will be become clearer to us when we realize that we will find purpose in life when our search leads us from why to whom.

Suffering does have a human face to it.

We have only to look at our Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross and there we will find the meaning of our existence and the answer to our searching and longing.

In our suffering we demand answers. We are not satisfied with pietistic platitudes such as "just offer it up" or "you will be just fine." Suffering, especially chronic physical sickness, deep emotional pain and death itself, causes a personal crisis that forces us to go deep into ourselves and ask those questions that are most fundamental to our human existence.

It is precisely in the crucible of intense suffering that we either come close to God or rebel against his loving presence.

"If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9: 23).

Embracing the cross, our personal cross or crosses is an essential aspect to our walk with the Lord Jesus.

Too many of our contemporaries seek an easy life without suffering, without sacrifice, without renunciation, without mortification. Many people would like to stand under the cross of Jesus and cry out "Come down from the cross."

Contemporary society does not want to suffer.

"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it" (Luke 9: 24).

We must be convinced that there is only one Jesus, and he is the crucified Jesus who rose from the dead. Christianity without the cross is not Christianity; only through the cross of Jesus have we gained salvation.

So, when we suffer, we should not consider our suffering a burden; rather we must look upon the cross we bear as an immense gift from God.

Blessed Mother Theresa once said: "Suffering is a sign that we have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss us and that he can show that he is in love with us by giving us an opportunity to share in his passion."

The meaning of suffering only makes sense when we contemplate Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead.

When we ask the question why, we need only look upon the crucifix. It is there that we will find the meaning of suffering and the exact reason why we too must carry our own cross.

Each of us has a cross to carry. We must all identify our crosses and carry them with patience, joy and love. Why should we complain about something that will be the means by which we will gain eternal life?

By Daniel Paschal  .

Don't define me by your logics, just feel me in your soul.

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