Freedom Ministries International, Inc.

A child awakens to the crows of a hundred different roosters and metal clanging as mama gets the fire going to make the tortillas that she will send to sell in the market place. It's 3:30 am the sun is not up yet but everyone is starting to come alive after the short nights sleep. His stomach aches for something to eat because he went to bed hungry and it's only gotten worse. Maybe mama will give him a couple of tortillas with salt, there is not enough money to buy coffee or even a small piece of bread. There are no beans or rice. Nothing to eat in one room house that the 12 of them call home, the situation seems hopeless but Juan has a smile on his face he gets dressed, tells his mother goodbye, grabs his backpack and runs down the small hill in the front of the house. He has a smile on his face as he climbs the hill, he's hoping that someone is at the center. You see Juan is a child who is sponsored at The Center of Faith , Hope and Love, he is content and he knows that he will have a good hot meal at lunch time.

What will we tell him?  How will we explain our actions or lack thereof?  How will we explain our collection of things?  How will we explain the interest we have paid on our credit cards to obtain useless things that sit in our houses or garages collecting dust?  How will we ever explain the fact that we ignored His commands for our lives and spent all of our time here on earth building castles like there was no promise from Him that he was building our castle in Heaven?

If I am not mistaken, I think Jesus was worried how we would explain these things also and that is the reason he told the parable