Over the last few months, God has been taking me ever so tenderly into a place of deeper trust, less of my own figuring-out and more choosing/welcoming/seeking of His light.
Prov 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding”
He’s showing me that my job is to walk in the light – and it’s HIS job to work the outcomes. Which, since He’s omipresent seems pretty obvious now but it wasn’t before.
But it is scary.
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
In the story where Peter gets out of the boat, most sermons I’ve heard focus on how Peter took his eyes off Jesus and started to sink – but that’s only one of the points. What spoke to me is that Jesus DIDN’T LET HIM DROWN.
“Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.” And considering how fast a body sinks in water – Jesus moved in fast. So it doesn’t even matter – if Jesus calls me to come, and I get scared, He will still catch me coz He called me to come to Him, to trust in Him – He doesn’t call us out to drown us. He calls and shows us His love even in our failures and fears.
Matt 14:22-32 … Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
“Come,” he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”