You’ve watched it too. I know I’m not the first or only person who has observed it. But there is a lesson in it we both may have overlooked.

There are some children on a beach. They’re playing at the edge of the water. Giggling. Building sandcastles. They seem so intent on the project. You get amused at how meticulous and careful they are with crumbly corners and tiny turrets. The looks on their faces as they screw their mouths around and stick out their tongues in earnest concentration are priceless.
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Everyone desires to know what others think about them. It is an intrinsic need of man. When people say, ‘I don’t care what anyone thinks about me’, most often than not, it is because they have heard negative things said about them.

There came a time when Jesus wanted to know what people thought about Him. He asked the disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of man is?’ (Matthew 16:13). He got variations of what people said he was. Some said he was Elijah, some Jeremiah, some said one of the prophets. After hearing what they had to say, he went on to ask them, ‘But what about you? Who do you say I am?’ (Matt 16:15)
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Yesterday, one of the oldest newspapers in the UK, News of the World, issued its last edition and closed down after 168 years of disseminating news to the British people.

Allegations of phone hacking topped the list of crimes committed by reporters of this paper; the worst of it all was the hacking of a mobile phone belonging to a murdered school girl after she was abducted.
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Jesus’ twelve disciples had noticed several times how the master separated himself to pray.   They knew that John had taught his disciples how to pray and they desired this as well. (Luke 11: 1 -4 )

Note that Jesus did not take it upon Himself to teach them, He waited for them to desire it.  It is possible that as part of their training, John taught his disciples to pray but in the case of Jesus, He waited for  them to ask.  The question is why?
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It was an ethics class I was teaching several years ago. I read a newspaper story to the class about two pre-teen girls who returned a purse they found on the street to its owner. They opened it, found the owner’s name on a driver’s license, and looked her up in the phone book. Oh, yes. They returned the $4,000 cash they saw inside the purse as they were searching for the owner’s identification.
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He had just won one of the fiercest battles of his life and was undoubtedly in very high spirits. Seeing God in action at a time you expect gives one an exhilarating effect. It makes you want to face the world with a ‘Bring it on!’ attitude because you have just seen an awesome demonstration of the power of God. This was how Elijah must have felt after the victory on mount Carmel. (1 Kings 18)
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Sometimes at the end of the day I would wonder, ‘where did the time go?’ This happens most times when I was extremely busy at work or on a project and I lost all sense of time while battling with the assignment.

Looking back at my forty plus years on earth, I can’t help but think, ‘where did all those years go?’ Yet as I think of this, the clock in my living room continues to count the seconds without stopping. It goes ‘tick-tock tick-tock’ without caring about my concerns about the movement of time. It makes me remember the various sayings about time, ‘Time waits for no one’ and ‘A stitch in time saves nine’
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I woke up this morning and lay on my bed meditating. While doing this, my eyes turned towards a corner of my bed where I had placed a flashlight. There was nothing strange about the flashlight as I had used it the night before and it was usual for me to keep it near me when I am in bed, in case here is a power outage anytime during the night.
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“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations” Duet 7:9

Promises. People make them and break them every day. Some people sincerely make promises believing that they will be able to keep them, while others make empty promises knowing that they have no intention of keeping them.
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Have you ever found yourself in a helpless situation? A place where you needed help and no one was there to give you the needed help? Well, I have been in that situation and I know how it feels to be abandoned and rejected.

Jesus tells us the story of the traveler who was waylaid by robbers on the way. He was stripped of all that he had, was beaten and left for dead. We are not told when the incident happened but what we know is that after the man had been left for a while, people began to pass by.
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