How do you want to be remembered?  Have you ever thought about that?  Some people spend a lot of time thinking about their “legacy” and how they will be remembered.  Do you want to be remembered as a loving husband, a great dad, the guy on the block who had the best looking yard?  Do you want to be remembered as the model wife and mother, the woman who “had it all together”?  Do you want to be remembered for your accomplishments on the field or your faithful years of service on the job? 

The account before us this morning is well known to most Christians. The story of Jesus walking on the water is part of just about every Sunday School curriculum there is. Just about every preaching pericope includes the record of Jesus walking on the water. It is at the same time simple and profound. Every child can understand that Jesus walked on top of the water out to his disciples. That is simple. But there is also something very profound about this event.

The state of Wisconsin right now is like a huge object lesson on the Kingdom of God.  I say that because all over our state farmers are planting their crops.   Everywhere they are putting the seeds in the ground.  Wheat and corn and soybeans and alfalfa.  Drive anywhere and you will likely pass a field where you will see the corn now sprouted and well on its way to being “knee high by the 4th of July.”