I know a lot of people who are faithful people. A lot of people who have faith in God to be there and protect them. Even if you do not have faith in God, you have faith in someone, a spouse, a parent, a friend. There is probably someone in your life you know you can trust and count on to be there for you no matter what. For me that is Jesus. Along with some others, but the main focus of my faith and trust is in Jesus, my Lord and my God.
Today though in my devotion I was convicted in my faith. It was sermon excerpt by Daniel T. Niles that did it. The sermon was titled Four Kinds of People. It was based on the scripture of the seed sower from Mark 4:1-20. He also spoke about Jesus calling Peter to him on the water, out of the boat. This is where the faith conviction comes. Peter saw his Lord and said, “call me out to you!” and Jesus said, “Come.” So Peter stepped out of the boat. Now Peter has 2 choices once he is out of the boat, one is to look at and focus on Jesus, and the other is to sink like a rock. Nothing else matters, those are the choices. Now in the boat you have 3 choices: to stay safely seated in the boat, look at and focus on Jesus, or wreck the boat. You do not have to place all of your faith and trust on Jesus, you put some of it in the boat! So to truly know your faith you have to step out of the boat. John Ortberg wrote a book on this, If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat. If you want to walk on water you have to take the faith you placed in the boat and transfer it to Jesus. As long as Peter focused on Jesus he walked on water, and as long as we focus on Jesus we will walk on water.
Place your faith and trust in Him alone. And walk across the see. So come on Jesus is calling you, “Step out of the boat!”
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