THE THREAD OF THE PROMISE OF GOD (part 3)

         Thus the question he asked me in between the conscious and unconsipuous mind, pushed me into the other room with a heavy heart of tears and prayer. 

        "Mom, God has given me a promise that my steps will not be hampered and my feet will not be stumbled. But why I fall into the PIT?"( John fall in a deep PIT which was dug deeply like a grave for the foundation of construction of a house -- and they put lot of thorny bushes in it . I do not know the reason for keeping so many thorny dried bushes there, but those thorns bruised John severely."  )  So he wanted to know why he fall in that PIT.

       I have no answer, I do not know what to tell him.  So honestly I accepted that " Kanna, I do not know... I am really ignore of this answer.  But I will ask the Lord and let you know."

    It look like that  he was contended with the answer,  and trusted me that I would get the answer for him I dared not to leave his bedside, because the doctor warned me the danger of that night, but I need to go our and pray and ask God about the question my son asked. So I went out into the other room closed the doors to pray.

       Once again I prostrated on the floor at the feet of my Lord, just as I am , I poured out my being in His presence and with supplications I queried Him, "Lord, my son is asking me about the promise you had given to him that 'his feet shall not stumble and his steps would not hampered"  He asked me why this promise is gone with the wind? He asked me why his feet stumbled why his steps hampered,  why he fall into that PIT, oh Lord , Oh Lord how come you forgot your promise to him,  now he is asking me about that, Lord what answer should I give to him? What answer shall I give to him for his question why he fall into the PIT?  Father I have no answer of mine, you tell me Lord what answer should I give my son."

             Thus I prayed and I was led to open the Bible and see the verses in Psalms 107:13-15 & 19-20          " And they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He saved them from their distress; and He brought them out from darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains; Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and for His wonderful deeds for men. 19 verse, and they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He saved them from their distress;  He sent forth His word and healed them  He rescued them from the PIT (grave )

        I was reading the Telugu Bible where it is written the exact word John used for the PIT  , in Telugu it is GUNTA   Why I fall in that GUNTA
 ( PIT)

            I was bewitched by the verse,
 " And they cried to the Lord in their trouble and He saved them from their distress; and they cried to the Lord in their trouble"
     
              Yes I cried to the Lord, I cried out His name in that valley loudly echoes of my cry were heard by everyone in that little place in between the hills, I  asked the Lord to help us, save my son in His name... yes I cried to the Lord in my trouble,  

              " He sent forth His word and healed them"

   Yes His word will heal my son, I  read the psalms 51 and Isaih 53 to him at his bed side,  surely my Lord will heal him with His word.

                 "He rescued them from the PIT (grave )"

   Oh Yes He rescued him from the PIT>..  Then at this juncture I heard a voice still and small in my back of the brain, like this.

      " PIT,  do you remember that Joseph was in the PIT thrown by his brothers,  he too cried from the PIT for help ?"

       "Yes Lord he too fall in the PIT and he too cried aloud for help,"

       "Yes , Didn't I give so many promises to him also about his future, Did I reveal all that is for him for the future in his dreams?"

         "Yes Lord you promised him that he would save his brothers and parents and that they would prostrate in front of him."

                " But what happened in the PIT< when he was in the PIT he too must had thought that I forgot my promises to him, but NO ... I did not forget the promise I gave him, I not only saved him from the PIT but I the Lord fulfilled all the promises I gave to him. Yes all my promises are Yea when I say Yea and 2 Corinthians 1:20  ( All the promises of God are Yea and in Him amen unto the glory of God by us.)

         Therefore frantically I flipped through the pages of the Bible to the book of Genesis where the account of Joseph was written

Genesis.37:24   And they took him and cast him into a PIT and the PIT was empty. There was no water in it.

Here in this verse it was written PIT only not the grave ... wonderful, my swollen eyes were beaming with lights of joy.  

            My heart was at peace, the peace that was given by Him,  "My Peace I give to thee, not the peace the world gives to you but my Peace I give to you ." John 14:27  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you, I do not giveto  you as the world gives"

       This promise was fulfilled exactly at that moment.

so the  I went and sat at the bed and praying silently in my heart, praising God for His peace. 
 so the next I did was, the minute he opened his eyes I was ready to give him the answer from the Lord. 
I told him , he was so very happy and rejoiced along with me. 
 He slept peacefully till 11am , when he got up, my mother prepared Rasam ( pepper water) and I was giving the food to him . I was feeding him with my hand, he sat on a stool and eating, then with one eye he was staring at the calender on the opposite wall and said, " Mom, you know my promise is behind this page . " That was the month of May, so I briskly got up and flipped the page back to see what promise he got for the month of April, there it was written like this ," ( this calender was Lef calender which all of us had the same calender in our homes.)
Psalms 61:2  " Lead me to the rock higher than I"   I could not controle my broad  grin  then and there but I joked saying " Well , boy it may be your promise to ask God to take you higher rock than you are but You have to ask also when you get come down from such hillock"

                          Later I asked him why he climbed the hillock , he told me that he wanted to see what is there on the other side of the hill and that he wanted to pitch a flag on the top of the hill.... wow I was astonished at this adventurous spirit without any precautions of course...or without any training or skill to do that. which caused me great pain, and made him to escape a great accidnet by His grace.

THE THREAD OF THE PROMISE OF GOD ( part 2)

               " Mom , Mom."  I can hear his voice right from the gate of the compound wall. I was in the kitchen, I see the excitement in his voice. As I was cooking dinner, I could not leave the stove so I answered him back, 'Yes , common, I am in the kitchen., what's the matter?'

               He is already in the kitchen both his arms around my knees, shouting with joy, " Mom my teacher told me we will have picnic on Saturday , "

                                         I was astonished.  And able to understand his enthusiasm.. because we were keeping the Sabbath in toto in letter, We have many Dos and Donts for the Sabbath, that is Sunday for us.  So No picnics on Sunday was one of the Don'ts. In John's previous classes we never sent him to any picnic because all those picnics were arranged on Sunday. So he was disappointed whenever there was picnic in his class. But this time it is on Saturday, so naturally he was fully excited over it.

                          But I have had my own doubts and fears for these picnics,  I knew how naughty was John, he would not keep quiet in one place, he runs fast, jumps fast, climbs fast and shows all his muscle and bone strength where it was not needed too.


                                     So I was afraid to send him with any one , leave alone the picnic , fearing he will fall and hit himself, he will climb and fall on the ground,, he will run and get hurt or wounded... With these fears, whenver there was a picnic on sunday, I was in fact relieved not to send him due to the reason it fall on Sunday.
But now its on Saturday, I cannot say no.
But I do not know why I said, so , What made me to tell this little boy to seek the will of Gcod for the Picnic.

                            So I said," Ok johnny, its on Saturday, so you can go, but I am too afraid of your safety, I am scared to send you with any one fearing you will jump and fell or run and fell or climb and break your bones. So I tell you now, go into the other room and see what Jesus will tell you about this picnic, If He says He will take care of you then I will send, so you go and pray whether He would to tell you to go to picnic or not"

                 I think I said it playfully, even though I had that fear lurking in my heart .

                      But this time its my turn to be astonished to see John taking my word literally, Went into the other room and sought for a Bible and knelt down and started to pray,
I peeped into that room , seeing my son knelt and pray, I came back to the kitchen without disturbing.

                              Next thing I remember is he again in the kitchen with an open English Bible in his hand and a finger on a line in the Bible, It was "When you walk your step will not be hampered; and if you run you will not stumble"
 Proverb 4 :12

                       I was wordless, the verse from the Holy Bible is there assuring him and me about his safety.   My boy was only a kindergarten school boy. he cannot read english leave alone Bible.  How he got this word of promise and why he brought this verse to me evading all my fears to say yes to his pleading to go to the picnic.
 I have no other reason to tell him not go to picnic, the first hurdle Sabbath was nullified and the second reason of my fear for his stablity is ruled out, so I had no other go but to say Yes, you can go to picnic."

                    Now after 3 years of that experience and safety of his life, he had fallen into a pit, a ditch, and bruised hopelessly, and he is unconscious, and in between the recoveries, he lifted his swollen eyelid forcefully looking into my eyes asked Why he had fallen, whereas the Lord promised him that he would not stumble, and his steps would not hampered.. how can God say 'no' to his 'yes' promise.  
           
              I was crushed in soul seeing my son groaning in pain, and now on the top of it, he reminds me and asking me why God could not keep His promise to him
As a mother what answer can I give.

                  See children all ways have that freedom and accessibility to the mother more than the father, because it is the mother who feeds them sitting very near to them, it is the mother who corrects them observing them in close quarters, it is the mother whol caution them on many a tasks how to carry on them.  So its easy for them to ask any question to their mother then and there without tarrying in time.

                     This is one of such timings, because he knew that any tough question can be answered by mother, she would answer all Bible questions for them, with this assurance he asked me '  MOM, why my feet hampered, why my step were slipped away, why I had fallen into the PIT?'
             
                              I have no answer , I knew that the promise was so real for him I was the witness when his tender hands lifted that old King James Version English heavy Bible to the kitchen and asked me to read the verse for him as he was led to claim that verse as his promise from the Lord.