January 5, 2025Aloys Evina
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In the day of happiness, be happy, and in the day of misfortune, reflect: God made one like the other, so that man may not discover in any way what will be after him. Ecclesiastes 7:14
The colossus with feet of clay (1)
About 2,600 years ago, Nebuchadnezzar reigned over the vast Babylonian empire (Daniel 2. 31-35). He has a strange dream: he sees a giant whose head is gold, his chest and arms are silver, his pelvis and thighs are copper, his legs are iron and his feet are partly iron and clay. Suddenly, a stone hits the feet, and the statue collapses…
It is from this biblical story that the expression comes to us: “the colossus with feet of clay”. It evokes a power that is apparently invulnerable but which, built on a foundation that is far too fragile, can collapse from one day to the next. The stone that overthrew the colossus seems to be the result of chance, but a strange chance, which disconcerts human beings and destroys their pretensions, and leads everyone to humility.
The pandemic that hit the world in 2020 provides a new illustration of this expression. Everything suddenly froze. A new virus, tiny but killer, has spread in just a few weeks across five continents. More than 3 billion humans have been confined in worry, and sometimes mourning. Initially, an illness that we believe to be harmless. But soon, general panic! Everyone is overwhelmed, messages clash, contradict each other, rumors multiply, doubts set in, distrust grows. Meanwhile, the virus kills. Let us understand that this pandemic, as serious as it was, was a warning. It makes us touch the limits of our pretension to wanting to get by alone, without God.
(to be continued)
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