Step Out Of The Boat
“And Peter answered Him, Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water. He said, Come! So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water, and he came toward Jesus.” - Matthew 14:28-29 (AMP).
It is easy to be so afraid of making a mistake that we never get around to stepping out on faith. We can spend all our time wondering, “Is this faith? Or is it presumption? What if we exercise our faith for something and find out later we have missed God’s will?”
Don’t worry. God can handle any mistake we can make. I know because I have made plenty of them. When I did, I would just go to the Lord and He would tell me, “Stay on the Word, son. Together we will overcome this thing.” And we always did.
If we act on the Word out of the sincerity of our hearts and steadfastly stay with the Word, Jesus will never let us down… no matter how many dumb mistakes we make. He proved that the night Peter jumped out of the boat in the middle of the lake.
Stop and think about that incident? Peter had not been praying or seeking God’s will before he did that. On impulse he just blurted out, “Lord, if it’s You bid me come.”
What was Jesus supposed to say? He could not very well say, “It’s not Me.” I suppose He could have said, “Wait a minute now. You don’t have the faith to get out here. You had better stay in that boat or you are going to drown for sure.”
However, He did not say that to Peter, and He will not say it to us. If we want to get out and walk by faith, He will get out there with us and pick us up when we start sinking. He will walk us back to the boat if He has to.
That being said, it is better to risk being presumptuous than to waste our lives in the boat of unbelief! If we have to, we need to just dive into the water and say, “God, help us!”
We cannot let fear keep us from taking that step of faith. We must get out of the boat today!
God Bless!
“Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified Bible.”
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