WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR WORLD?

EASTER CELEBRATION: 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

As we celebrate the Passover from slavery to freedom and from death to life, the warnings about impending disasters due to climate change are still ringing in our ears. With a report on climate change, a UN Scientific Panel sounded the alarm about the looming dangers and called for urgent action in order to avoid a catastrophe.

We can see heavy clouds in horizon, forcing us to ask what is in wait for us and for our descendants in the near future? What legacy are we living behind? 

We have been poisoning the world, while enjoying ourselves. Indeed, the picture is gloomy...

Having just remembered the Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, we should ask ourselves when are we going to learn?

Jesus' death and resurrection are a Promise and a guarantee of life's victory over death - the victory of God's love over selfishness and evil. However, we are as much selfish as all the generations that came before us.

The ones in power and those who manage and control the wealth of the world only care about today. And all of us behave as if tomorrow will someone else's problem.

We still belong to the old Adam, whose thirst for self-affirmation is never quenched and the anger to exerce control is never satisfied. With our deep desire to be gods, we are building a world without future, like those who built the tower of Babel. With everything at the service of our self-indulgence, we run the risk of annulling God’s Promise. However, God will find a way to fulfill his Promise, in spite of our stubborness.

The celebration of Jesus' resurrection is an affirmation of hope based on a firm faith on the unshakable love of God, strong enough to overcome all the powers of evil.

Christ, the New Adam, is our guide and the prototype of a new humanity with a bright future, if we are ready to be his true disciples.

Paul indicates to us the right direction:

"Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed; let us celebrate the feast, then, by getting rid of all the old yeast of evil and wickedness, having only the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." - 1 Cor 5:8

I pray for an Easter filled with the joy of the first disciples and the blessings of the risen Christ. Happy Easter.