Thoughts for another day

Feb. 7, 2013.

Today's verse: Eccl. 11:5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

I see the little girl in all her finery in the bungalow, dressed and ready to cut her birthday cake, a huge chunk of cream and chocolate, created by deft hands; amidst friends and family and then she bawls loudly…coz her dad forgot to buy her the big teddy in the grand store; rather he bought her a toy car.  Then I see a little girl in the small home, next to the bungalow with a simple dress, standing in front of a platter of four plain cakes, placed together to look as one big one.  No candle nor any glitter; no people, just her dad, mum and brother.  She looks so happy and as soon as they sing the song, she picks up the cakes and gives it to them and then and eats hers quietly. 

Then again I see the men in the restaurant reveling, drinking their liquor, gorging on scrumptious food, the aroma of which wafts across the street to the beggar sitting with his staff ready to have his meal placed on the ground; a piece of stale bread, a few green chilies and some  onion.  The aroma has no effect and he looks up at the sky to thank the Almighty for the food he managed to get.  I too look up, a silent thought in my mind: You made them all and in the womb there was no difference to the way you made them, but now see…what a difference; WHY?  Some are bloated with gorged up food, some are emaciated with, as it were, just mud on bones.  Oh what a difference, the same human being, but so much difference.  How do I understand Your work O Lord…is there a rationale, really it skips me if there is.

The story of Lazarus and the rich man shakes my mind.  Lazarus could’ve done with the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich man says Jesus, but he didn’t get any.  Why?  Perhaps the answer lies in the fall of Adam from Grace.  But Jesus has re-started the flow of Grace and we who’re Christian have access to it, yet, there’s so much inequality, so much bias, even in our churches.  Perhaps in that I get my answer, but I yet know that He is able to make all things well.  I know our kingdom is not this world, but the one which we’ll leave this earth for and in that I rejoice.