The Sunday Mail
By Bishop O’Carm
We have in the letter from St Paul to the Colossians 1:24, Paul saying I am suffering now but I am making up what is still lacking in the suffering of Christ.
I think Paul was trying to say that God has given all of us the privilege of sharing in the suffering of Christ so that we can be part of the salvation.
And so when we look at the people who died in Chimanimani in some way they were chosen in a mysterious way to be taken.
They didn’t do anything wrong, it wasn’t out of any sinfulness,they were just taken and we believe in some way God is going to bring good out of this. And as Christians we believe in the after-life and that this life is only a shadow of our real life. We are all going to leave this world, maybe not in such a dramatic way as the Chimanimani people did, but we will all die.
We cannot avoid suffering in this world because our Saviour was not spared suffering and as his followers we are not spared suffering. But as we follow Jesus in His suffering we also participate in His resurrection, that is the source of our hope.
