Dear believers in Christ,

All living things as well as human beings are part  of God's creation. God gave human beings the authority to have dominion over nature.  Human beings are to be the trustees or protectors or keepers of the earth, protecting and developing the natural world in accord with God's purpose and plan.  Nature has been bestowed with an abundance of resources for the support and maintenance of life systems on planet earth. The inter-relatedness of the whole creations should be upheld.  In this context  of inter relationship of human and space that we need to search for new meaning of life by maintaining justice in the eco system by preserving wild life, forest and rivers.   John the evangelist in his gospel presents Jesus as the eternal word through whom everything is created and as the one who has life and this light that he offers to the world is the light of all people. The Biblical writers constantly reflect on the situations of destruction and they speak of a 'New Heaven and a New Earth' which God is going to initiate by His redeeming grace.  The words of John give the church a new hope of a new creation. John is not speaking about a magical new creation but when human beings make a movement from darkness to light, the darkness of ignorance, the darkness of selfishness, the darkness of the inability to see oneself as part of a larger reality, the darkness of oppressive economic policies and to see the entire created order as a vessel of God's grace.  We need to equip our churches and society to engage in a transformative action to realize the promise of freedom of nature for the creation is subjected to frustration. We are called to be the keepers of the earth and not to be the destroyers of nature

In His service,

Joseph Achen