My Great Love For Jesus Led Me To tstam p people back to life? Thus, for several years, the concept of Child Jesus left me disappointed. As Easter was approaching, Iused to watch televised stories of how Jesus was abused until he was hung on a cross to be crucified. I really wanted to climb inside the TV set and help him somehow. I asked God to help him, and asked Him not to let His son be crucified. In the end, I would hide and cry because I was taught that men do not cry. I could not understand rvhy such brutality was inflicted on such a good rnan. As a child, this incident cultivated in me an intense love for this great prophet of God. As for other children, perhaps the toys they received on Christmas - as an answer to their wish letters - was the cause of their affection towards Jesus. If the objective of the Church was to somehow infuse a feeling of reverence for Jesus, in my case they were successful. I learned to love Jesus more than my own parents. However, rvhile still a child, I started to question the porver of God. The corrcept that I had about God was that He could do r.vhatever He rvanted. I{e had created the universe, the earth. the sun, the rnoon. the stars, and ltuman beings. I wondeled rvhy He could not save Jesus from being crucified on the cross. In order to resolve this dilemma, on one occasion I clirnbed a small wall in the backyard of my house and cliallenged God, saying: lf You are really so porvcrful, and can do uhatever You like, then rnake nie f1y r.vhen Ijump {rom this rvall. Otherrvise, I will not believe that You are so poucrfll, because You could not save Jesus from the cross either. Fofiunately, the wall nas not so high and l fell to the ground. With every attempt to fl1 I becarne r.nore and rnore convinced that God rvas not so porveriul alier all. A childish analysis indeed ! M
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