There are many ways to be reminded of our age.  Well, here is one of them: The other day, when Santy and I were at our daughter’s home, one of our grandsons said to me, “Kung Kung, let me read to you.”  Apparently, it was not a request but an order, because he just took my hand, sat me down, and started reading to me—cover to cover.  And his brother also did the same thing to Santy—he read to her!  Just several years ago it was we who read to them but now it’s they who read to us.  I can only guess, it is because they see us so old that we cannot read anymore and need them to read to us.

Time certainly flies; what I did not know was that it flies so fast!  The other day I spoke with a minister-friend of mine.  I still remember the first church that he pastored decades ago, but now he’s talking about retirement.  Time flies, but we do not have to fly along with time at that fast speed.  We can still savor and live each minute.  We who take the time and do not rush are often used by God to do His will and to reflect the glory of His Son Jesus, as shown by this story.

Because their meeting ran late, five out-of-town salesmen rushed to the station to catch a train home.  Inadvertently one of them kicked over a table on which was a basket of apples; it belonged to a blind boy who was selling apples.  These salesmen climbed up to the train except one, who out of compassion, decided to help the boy collect his apples.  He told his colleagues to call his wife and tell her that he would come home late.  Finding that some of the apples were split, he took twenty dollars out of his wallet and gave it to the boy to pay for those apples.  The boy took the money; while the salesman was walking away, the boy called after him and asked, “Are you Jesus?”

It is when we walk and not run that we can become more like Jesus and be used by Him.  You see, Jesus never ran; He always walked.

Pastor Paul