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Author: Aino Karali

From a young age, I wondered: “Why is there so much evil in the world?” War and injustice shook my soul, and I couldn’t understand how a good God could allow such things.

It was then that I had the opportunity to open the Bible, and its words were a balm for me… I read how from the beginning of the world, injustice and sin infiltrate and destroy all that is perfect, what we imagine in our deepest dreams and wish for. We say: “This is how the world should be…”

You read, and just as you realize the extent of this world’s destruction… a figure emerges. And that figure is Jesus. This “man,” Jesus, whose words, life, and actions are something unique, something divine.

Even today, I often think and put myself in the place of other people. If you are a refugee, do you know that Jesus was also a refugee? In the early years of his life, he left Israel with his parents, where he was born, and stayed in Egypt to escape persecution.

If you are a woman, do you know that Jesus was the first to not only speak to women on a personal level but also engage in deep personal conversations with them? Against the traditions of his time, he treated them with genuine respect. Women who were considered prostitutes and were ready to be killed, he stood up for them and took their side. He accepted their touch and worship. He knew they wouldn’t defile Him… unlike the hypocrisy of the religious.

Jesus was also the first to accept children, not only as equal individuals to adults but he honored them so greatly that he placed them in the center as an example and told his disciples to become like them.

Jesus accepted both the poor and the rich in the same way. There were no distinctions before him, only hearts. If you feel incomplete, small, sinful, with questions, know that Jesus is here for you. But if you feel you are okay, perhaps Jesus isn’t for you… He made it clear that he didn’t come for the “healthy,” but for the sick. He was often unpredictable in how he behaved, not bound by the customs of his time. He did some things “revolutionary.” He didn’t hesitate to overturn all the merchants’ shops in the temple with a whip. He couldn’t tolerate people thinking they could buy God’s favor through commerce.

The greatest thing Jesus did was on a Cross, on a hill. Where the world’s absolute injustice… met absolute justice. That of God. There I stand sometimes, along with the women and John, and cry and say:

“Why did you have to go through all this?” I know he was wronged like no one else… But I also know that I am his fruit. Through his pain, he achieved victory. My victory. And someday I will meet him… And then, words will no longer be needed to tell Him…

How much I love Him.