Matthew 14:28-31 KJV
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
The story of Peter's walk on the water could be the story of every Christian.
We come to know the Lord as our Saviour and spiritually we know that all things are possible to him that believeth. At one point or another we ask the Lord for the faith to do what we cannot do.
• Perhaps it is a ministry
• Perhaps it is an offering
• Perhaps it is to witness to a particular person
Seeing the almighty Christ we step out to serve the Lord in some way that seems great to us.
But invariably, once we begin, we also see the challenges in ways we could not see before we stepped out in faith.
We knew there were difficulties before, but seeing them when we are secure from them in the boat and seeing them when we are next to perishing because of them are two different things. Sooner or later the nature of the man comes out and we feel the violence of the waves. It stops us in our spiritual tracks.
Exactly how great things we accomplish depends on how soon the waves become more visible to us than the Lord. Every Christian I know eventually has either climbed back in the boat, giving up on the venture, or cried out to the Lord that they had gone far enough in faith. Some just choose to go swimming, still out of the boat but doing what they do in the power of the flesh and not of God.
None of us walk on water our whole lives. Some of us at least make a step or two.
And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
The story of Peter's walk on the water could be the story of every Christian.
We come to know the Lord as our Saviour and spiritually we know that all things are possible to him that believeth. At one point or another we ask the Lord for the faith to do what we cannot do.
• Perhaps it is a ministry
• Perhaps it is an offering
• Perhaps it is to witness to a particular person
Seeing the almighty Christ we step out to serve the Lord in some way that seems great to us.
But invariably, once we begin, we also see the challenges in ways we could not see before we stepped out in faith.
We knew there were difficulties before, but seeing them when we are secure from them in the boat and seeing them when we are next to perishing because of them are two different things. Sooner or later the nature of the man comes out and we feel the violence of the waves. It stops us in our spiritual tracks.
Exactly how great things we accomplish depends on how soon the waves become more visible to us than the Lord. Every Christian I know eventually has either climbed back in the boat, giving up on the venture, or cried out to the Lord that they had gone far enough in faith. Some just choose to go swimming, still out of the boat but doing what they do in the power of the flesh and not of God.
None of us walk on water our whole lives. Some of us at least make a step or two.
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