Can I Imitate a Useless Messiah?

At least for some,

the expectation for the Messiah was totally fake.

They made the scripture,

a tool for analysis and prediction of events.

Even after knowing that Bethlehem is to be his birthplace,

and that his star has already appeared,

they did not come out

of the secure shelter of the palace

of the firm certainty of the religious thoughts.

“What is the use of the messiah when ‘we’ are there?

His coming and his presence,

we do not just care.”

Christ is born in a living-word-possibility in human pains

There, God knocks at the door,

“Can you become the mother of the savior,

offer a shelter, assure security,

walking ahead of him to prepare a way,

and die an apparently meaningless death?”

When the Word becomes our meaning of life,

the anointed one will be born in us too.

In many of our attitudes,

we do not let any other king to take control,

even God – that is a mysterious truth.

Acclaiming that God is king of kings,

thinking of God who rules, we are happy.

We like a Messiah who puts everything into submission.

But Christ did not come with the glory of colonial conquest,

Majesty of an emperor!

In us who want to be rulers,

is there a growth of inner freedom for generous service?

At a time when we may be humiliated without even a dignity,

can we serve with the love of the Messiah?

When we become migrants in our home lands,

even when we have no shelter of our own,

will our hearts be ready,

to offer the Messiah who may be born in us,

to offer  the love of his open heart?