Being Peter

Yesterday I got some news that instantly made me doubt. Doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt! Why do we doubt? I doubted for about 3 minutes then I thought of Peter. Jesus asked me to step out of the boat, so I did (faith), then as I was walking on the water I started to get nervous and took my eyes of Jesus and started to sink (doubt), and said "Lord, save me" (help), and Jesus said "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" (Matt. 14:30-31.) 

I was doubting that even with Jesus I would not be able to accomplish what He has asked me to do...now that I write it down I think "whoa, was I really that stupid?" We doubt because we are human, we think that miracles don't happen in 2013, and we are dead wrong. God still heals, he still sends the things we need when we are drowning in our lives, when we can't pay the bills the money comes, when our marriages are failing He holds them together, when we have friends or families who are walking away from Him, He brings them back. He is faithful and never failing. 

He asked me to do something, I know in heart He has asked me to do it, so I plan to! And even when it seems over whelming and IMPOSSIBLE I have to remember that the same God that brought Lazarus back from the dead, helped Peter walk on the water, fed 5,000 people with 5 loaves and bread and 2 fish is on my side and it WILL happen. 

So step out of the boat, but once you're out of the boat keep your eyes on Jesus, don't get nervous and look away because you WILL sink. Jesus never told us a life with Him would be easy or always fun, it will be hard, and stressful, but do we really want life to be easy all the time? Easy means comfortable, I don't want to be comfortable, if going to the ends of the earth to further His kingdom and to "love the least of these," is uncomfortable I want to be so uncomfortable it hurts.

When I get scared or nervous or downright comfortable I think of eternity. I think about Heaven and who I'll see once I'm there. I'll see my great grandparents, I'll see Matt's grandma again & his grandma I have never met. I'll see the sweet babies who only lived to be babies, I'll see my best friend who died in 7th grade, I'll see people I have never met before but become close friends with, and most importantly I'll see Jesus! So being uncomfortable for a few short years on earth is sooooooo worth it to see those faces again or for the first time! I'll see Jesus!!!

 So will you step out of the boat, and once you're on the water what will you do?

Until next time...Matthew 14:22-36