Sand Castle memories

  Elijah and Steve are digging in the sand together for the better part of a couple hours. Deep trenches and well engineered water routes were factored into the construction plans for their father and son sand castle. Up out of the plain old sandy beach a royal homestead was being made. After hours of work it was time to close out the project so off they went to get some shells to put in the main towers and wa-la it was complete!  As we stood back, someone asked, 'How do you get into it, there's no gate, door or entrance'. Before you knew it, there was a little gate with a roadway to it.

  We all celebrated their castle! It had everything a castle could have & the job was done; smiles, imagination, father-son bonding, and new construction..it truly was a pleasant site on the plain, flat ordinary beach. We made a "Kodak moment" and took pictures, hugged and finally got Steve to get off the castle and get ready to join us playing football....BUT - as we all stood there still looking at it, the first wave came up to the end of the new road, within seconds the second wave came within inches of the new gate, then came a huge wave that almost swept the whole castle away......need I say more? 

  The next day we came down to swim and you couldn't even tell that any father or son had played there the day before...you would never think that some wonderful family memories were ever fashioned on that spot.  It was too bad, all we had were some pictures and, for those of us without a camera.....just the memory.  Three waves were all it took, just three waves and it was gone....If you look at that section of the beach today there's nothing. But thank you Kodak because the camera captured the castle, the shells, Elijah and Steve and all of us watching. It has the memories, even though the waves mercilessly erased the art form.

   In Isaiah 43:26 it says 'Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case (NKJ)'

God is telling us here to 'remind Him', (not like He ever forgets or anything like that) but to just remind Him of the things that through His Word, the Bible, He has promised us.  Life gets like the beach to us and the waves of everyday work, worry, problems, struggle and activities kinda have a way of washing away our little castle of security or comfort.  Maybe some of you have seen your health castle being washed away. Someone else may have their peace castle bowled over by bully waves, or your job has been flattened. That's when it's a good time to sit down with your Bible, look up some of God's wonderful promises and remind Him what His Word says....His Word to you!!!