My Radical Reflections on Genesis First two chapters (1)

        I am afraid to pen down my radical reflections on Genesis First Two chapters,  But I cant stop writing,  I have to write, and I need to write, and I am writing here.
I read and reread the first two chapters of Genesis, many a times before,  but this time  it is unfolding new revelations to my mind, and what I see between the lines  is the awesome design of God.. His love for humanity, His great plan which reveals His mystery in these few pages.

 ""God has had special Mind and Mission in creating the earth. He must had been very very lonely. He might needed someone who is much'less' than Him, to talk , to play with , to laugh and to love and to be loved.  Just as we love to have a pet .
The whole universe had been obedient to Him, they use to do just like He patterned, fashioned them; so , He wanted someone who has 'Free Will', 'Self'  and who has authority over his senses, life, character, body.. and still could obey Him and love Him.!!

In the beginning God.... oh what He was trying to do?  Gen1:1 to Gen 2:2 depicts  how God tried to finish His creation at one stretch.  Just like a painter or Sculptor, writer,  or potter would do with his work.  They just do it and finish it . Finish  it First.

   All other 'extras' , or 'specialties" or special 'decorations' , 'additions' deletions' will be taken later.

      So after God has created 'everything' , yes literally "everything", even men & men of every nation, race, color were "created" in His image   Gen1:26   In His image"  means --like , I may say, His mind-set, His skill, His senses, Like seeing hearing , touching etc with special "intelligence, 'Power--unlike other animals , or above other animals.

       God created  'earth and sky"  Gen 1;1 May be this is the heading or title to His story of creation from  Gen1:1 to Gen 2:2  

God Brings Right Person At Right Time. LOOK into THE BOOK

               She was transferred to our town  and she became my close friend, though she was 10 or 12 years elder to me, I was 21 years old that time. She was single , educated. I was bewitched by her way of talking, smiling, dressing, and prayer life.  My my parents, and sisters were not coming to the church I became very lonely at home in those days.  Those were the days  of my early christian life. New convert. Not at baptised. Only seeking God more and more.
The word of God made me to ask forgiveness of my parents for many lies I spoke to them and for the rebellious nature I exhibited in those days. I told them I would not grieve them in such a way any more. I also tried to be  more in love  with my. sisters, as I never had been very closer to them, since my childhood. I used to have my own place in my home as the eldest  daughter . My Love for my my Lord made me  to love them and I  started to teach them about the way of the Lord and pursued them to go with me to listen to the word of God.
She  became my close friend, as my kanthaunty and Kanthamma aunty in my childhood. They were  much elder to me and I like to be with them. But she is different.
 She taught me many English songs. The first song she taught me was “ Amazing Grace” later she taught me many more songs. She introduced ‘ Our Daily Bread ‘ to me, and till now for all these 45 years these daily devotions became my spiritual food for me every day. She taught me how to dress up, how to talk and how to fast and pray.She never told me anything by word, I just observed her and I liked the way she does things. I still remember, first time how she told me about fasting” Leela, today is Saturday, usually I fast and pray, what about you, do you fast?” I said, “ Oh my, I cant fast, if I fast I get pain in the chest”—so she prepared an omelette and gave me two slices of bread to eat. Everything she does was so beautiful . Her vessels in the kitchen were very small, her cooking was simple. She was simple, and neat.
Even her ear studs were so small, I was attracted by her “simplicity” I said to her” can I call you Akka, you know I do not have any one who is elder to me in my life as akka,? She smiled sweetly and readily agreed to be called so.
She said why do not you stay with me to night? “”
As it is already very late  and I did not like to go  home in this darkness  I accepted her wish and  willing to stay back. Any way dad used to go on camp for every week end, I thought I can learn of Bible from her more. I used to ask her all my doubts and she used to tell me everything in the Bible. She was the first one who taught me how to consecrate Sunday for His worship and prayer. She was so loving and friendly.
That night I spent with her, and the next day we both prayed together and went to church in the evening. My sisters came to the same prayer service and told me that dad was very angry with me for they were afride that dad would  scold me much and did not  know what would happen to me.
There were no phones in those days. Then I realized how foolish I had been.
I was in my own world of happiness. I forgot the anxiety I created to my parents. I was so foolish. I was very much afraid also to think of the wrath of my dad  I had  to face once I go home. So I knelt down and asked the pardon of God first,
 “ "lord please help me, I did a very wrong thing. I was so happy to stay with Akka and I forgot what trouble I created at home. Now dad is so angry, what shall I do lord, I am so afraid to go home”
That was my sincere prayer. Prayer was like talking to God, whatever in my heart, I used to tell him as it is, and He used to reply me immediately thru His word.
You know my eyes fell on this verse. Proverbs 15:1 “ A gentle answer turns away the wrath”
 Oh lord, my heart was still I got His sweet word and when I went home, dad was there in the hall, with angry eyes he shouted at me” where did you go last night?’
Then I did not understand His position much but as a parent now I know what it is to have a daughter like me. 
"Oh
Sorry daddy, I was with akka praying, I will not do like that anymore without telling you any more hereafter. “
 Strange, the eerie atmosphere calmed down. He had kept cool. My dad just trusted me, and I kept my word thereafter. This was how God started to intervene in our family matters and brought great discipline amongst us. Otherwise, I know , such simple incident would have brought great uproar in our family and I knew the wrath of my Police Inspector dad. We were so scared of him, those days. My childhood affinity with him was all lost during the past few years, somehow he became a stranger to me.I abhorred his presence so much and I did not like his presence to talk to him or spend time with him.. Such was the strangled relationship between us. But Christ brought love into my heart once again. Love for family members, love for neighbors love for relatives and their salvation.

The BOOK--LOOK into it.

              God  is very near  and  His  presence is everlasting.  He is with us in the form  Holy Spirit. 
       While God is smiling at us, Jesus is holding our hand and leads, His Holy Spirit  dwells in our heart to remind us that we have the  companionship of Father and the son.  
       He gives answer to every query of us every time.  His answers are in His book. Only thing  we have to do is 
stretch your hand,    open the BOOK and LOOK into it. 
   Some times the answer pops up, from the pages of the BOOK, words and the verse shines and you just cannot see anything else, except that VERSE.----and you know THAT is the exact answer to your query. 
 HIS SHEEP KNOW HIS VOICE.

   Here I am giving 'a very few instances wherein I  received the answers from the Holy Scriptures.  
      "Thw day was  bright  and beautiful--I was on my way to the University  I choose a bus which goes along the beach, the hazel green waters  edged with white foam  sprinkling  water into the air,  and the white dunes of sand, with salty smell of sea in the air  touches the nostrils,  luls the  heart for a minute to go beyond the horizons,  and into the clouds, and touches the  heavenly  host... where my KING looks down at me.
     His smile on my face gave me much more strength.. I pulled my hand bag and pulled the note book where I wrote that day Promise...
         "Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the  field; and beasts of the field will be at peace with thee"   Job 5:20-24
   It was my wont  to write  the promise I get in my morning devotions  on a paper and learn it by heart in leisure timings . 
 Little I knew that I was going to face a very similar situation that day, and God in His mercy covers me under His precious blood. 
          Later in the college, I was called out of the class room by a tall and hefty boy, to accuse me that I was a stumbling block between the love of a boy and girl, as I stopped that girl to talk to her lover.     God gives right words in our mouth  just for the occasion,  we  never knew what we would talk but He will give such  wise words in our mouth.   Like the golden fruits  in a silver platter.   Even our Lord told us,               "when you are brought before ....rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what will you say,for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say" Yes that is how the Lord has rescued me when I was confronted by a student union leader, asking me why I stopped the girl and boy to meet.  I told him, Bhayya, I am in no way involved in this, she is coming with me to the prayer meetings and she is praying much, and she 
her self decided what to do and what not to do." He stared at me for a long time and with much huffs and muffs he left the corridor and went down to meet the other boys who gathered down stairs  who took an oath to humiliate me .  I do not know what that Leader spoke to them at that moment but later I came to know that he spoke in favour of me.  Thus the much awaited rumble was subsided and I had good escape, from such a narrow crisis.  
yes the Lord  gives His word instantly , exactly and beautifully just for the occasion and saves us, I will write many more instances of this sort , may be hundreds.. of them.  I will post them one by one.

The world is Cruel and Barbaric....(on children)

                 How can we show our gratitude to the people and to the Lord, there is a beautiful verse in the Bible about our Lord Jesus Christ when he was very young, " he was growing in the mercy of men and God"..His personality was such, People were merciful unto Him. And the mercy of  God was all ways  on His beloved son.

               Do you find this mercy upon us and our family in the world of today?    The world is so cruel, people are living in the history of Sodom and Gomorrah, they do not have the fear of God or man.   Everybody is thinking that they can do any thing with their might, power and money.  The prince of the world is making them to slumber in their pride and pomp.

          The human values are forgotten, only   treachery is "playing its role in the wilderness of life.
              A few weeks back I saw a video on "Peace Child"  Filmed in the  jungles  of southwest Pacific,among a tribe by name SAWI . In this tribe there are  strange customs and strangest human values where Treachery is considered as the most skillful and beautiful Human value.  The stunning event in the picture is when the missionaries tell these people about the story of Jesus Christ, and the disciples, and How Judas Iscariot  betrayed Him for 30 silver coins,  the tribe rejoiced and literally jumped with the joy saying that the real hero of the story was Judas because his human value is Treachery.    they had a strange custom too, when any of the neighbouring tribes defeated them in the battle,  they would give one of their infant child , as a PEACE CHILD to them and the other party take the  child and stop killing them.  
         We are living in this barbaric world,  we are leaving our children in an unknown worldof guilt and fear.  The values we teach at home are different from the  world they are studying and working.  The  love we showed at home the honesty we spoke at home is not at all considered as a good quality bytheir peers.. What we consider  beautiful and  wonderful is considered  as ugly and outdated by the world out side.  
    I fear this. I had given the best life to my children,  the best possible human values ever we could, The Bible values, the teachings of Christ, to them.  They are in different cultures and living their lives.  The life they had tasted at home , the training given at home did not depart , but what aobut the next generation, the world is worse now than then.  while my granddaughter is going to school I do not have that much  courage to face the world ,as I used to have with my own children.  
      The life is not as it was, in our youthful days, the people were not so corrupt as in the days of my children, and comparing that with the grandchildren, I feel so depressed, and  I dare not think of it.  I wonder what type of life , future is awaiting for them in this cruel world.
 Oh no , no, The truth is its worse now than then,  but we have all Powerful Big God.  He is not dead, He is alive.  In the days when He came into the world to show us His love, He lived in the world much worse than now.  When He was born, the king was terrible , and cruel one, he never cared the Holy Scriptures, on the other hand , instead of obeying the prophesies , he took revenge over the people, When he knew Jesus was born , he killed all the infants below 2 years.. what days were they? They were worse than now.   There were no rules or regulations in the highest civilization of Romans, their way of punishing the people was the most cruel thing, i.e., Crucifixion. Oh it was worse then now.  Slavery was the rule of the day. Poverty and sin, adultry, bribery, unjustful punishments, polygamy were the natural things of life. On one side, the angelic , prophesies and  miracles were happening, in the lives of common people, but another extremity of self righteousness, and oppression were prevailing. Our Lord choose the perfect timing to  come into this world, to show us that even in this horrible world , by God's grace, our children could live  and brought up under the merciful wings of God , and also in the mercy of men.   Because, just Because, Nothing is impossible to God. He is All mighty God, the Alpha and Omega,  He knew our lives, and desires, and our cries.. God is our fortress, entrust our future generations to His loving Hands.. all would be well. FAith cries aloud , "Its possible,"  Let Faith reign our lives.