‘but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.’ Matthew 10:33

A teenage boy, probably about 14, confidently said, “What’s up!” whilst wheeling past me on his bike. I smiled and responded that I was ok, thinking that it was probably one of my students that I did not recognise. Looking shocked he pointed past me and it was then that I realised he wasn’t talking to me at all, I was just in line with his friend who I did not see.

How embarrassing, I didn’t know where to put myself.

Has that ever happened to you? I hope not, but the chances are that it has happened to a fair few of us. But the opposite is also true; you know where you deliberately chose not to see someone because maybe you are running late and you know that they have all day to chat shall we say. Or an unresolved situation remains so because you think that the other person should take the first step towards reconciliation.

In some, not all, ways it is more obvious when you can see someone avoid you or you do the same to them, but what about God? How often do we choose not to listen to him when we can clearly hear him talking to us?

Kelly Willard sings ‘Blessed be the Lord God Almighty.’ Click on the picture.