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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 17: Step Of Faith


You see the SEA.

And then you hear the words,

"COME TO ME".

You look to your left.

You look to your right.

You see no one.

You see the SEA.

And you hear the words

"COME TO ME".

You hear them so clearly,

 knowing exactly where they are coming from,

but you look down to the sandy beach.

You know exactly where the words are coming from

and you know exactly who is saying them,

but there is a problem.

You see the raging SEA before you,

and that is where you are

 INVITED

to

COME.

But you are WAITING for

GOD to do what HE does best

and part the SEA,

making a smooth path for you to walk.

But HE doesn't.

HE wants you to PRESS FORWARD

as HE sent HIS SON

to INVITE you to

COME,

despite the SEA.

Oh HE is pushing TRUST to another level.

What do you do?

You can run the other way, and ignore HIS INVITATION.

You can pretend it isn't JESUS speaking to you.

So what if you said NO.

Could you ever go back to that beach

and look at the SEA again

and be the same.

But maybe that is why JESUS is asking you to

"COME TO ME",

so that you will never be the same again.

You look to the left.

You look to the right.

You look at the SEA.

And you put your big toe in the water

and then the other four toes follow.

And before you know it you are

walking where you never have walked before

and now you wish you would have answered

HIS INVITATION

in the past

when others have told you about

HIM in the past,

but just shrugged HIM off as just some

religious character who is in church

who could never do for you

 what HE has done for the other

characters in the BIBLE.

But now you know why.

Because you didn't see the SEA in front of you,

you saw FEAR instead.

The FEAR that

JESUS may let you down,

just like all the others who have let you down.

The FEAR that JESUS may condemn you,

just like the others who have condemned you.

The FEAR that JESUS may not be who HE says HE is.

But FEAR doesn't stop JESUS.

 “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid” (Matthew 14:27).

You look to your left.

You look to your right.

You look at the SEA.

“COME TO ME".

Do you COME?

Is JESUS asking you to take that STEP of FAITH

in a direction that you are too afraid to take,

because you

don't

 TRUST

 JESUS

to be ENOUGH

and

to do ENOUGH

for little "ole you?

Are you waiting to SEE GOD to part the SEA before you will

TRUST HIM ENOUGH

to take that STEP forward.

For maybe just maybe

HE is waiting for you to take

the first

STEP

because

HE is already there

waiting for you

to

"experience superabundantly more than all that we dare ask

or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams],

according to HIS power that is at work within us" (Ephesians 4:20).

Will you join me today

and

FAST from the

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

by taking that

STEP OF FAITH with the ONE who will take you there,

because JESUS will never take you

 where HE isn't already there.

Therefore,

________________,

"Walk by FAITH

____________________,

not by sight,

 living your life _________________,

 in a manner consistent with your confident belief in GOD'S promises!"

 (2 Corinthians 5:7).

And before you know it

you will be

"DANCING ON THE WAVES"

(listen to the song below)


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