A friend of mine told me once that we sometimes find ourselves out on the water, and the only thing we know for sure about why we’re there is because the Lord called us. This is probably the scariest thing I have ever done. I don’t mean the writing. I’ve put myself out there before. Rather, it’s what this blog post represents, which is the beginning of a ministry that has been on my heart for some years now. But it’s only been
recently that God has shown me the final pieces and said: “now”.
So this is it. And that’s scary. And that fear is what holds a lot of us back from stepping out of the boat and onto the turbulent waters of our
calling. After all, what if it fails? It’s one thing to post something that nobody reads; it’s quite another when the most important thing on our heart doesn’t work. What then? I read a quote not to long ago that said: “attempt something so big that it is doomed to fail, unless God be in it.”
Having faith means trusting that God will do his part. If he has called us to something, then He has called us into a partnership with Him. We have to let go of our insecurities and believe that, as long as we are faithful stewards of our part in it, then He will be faithful to do His part, and make it successful. When I worked for a big corporation it wasn’t my job to make sure that the company had customers wanting to buy our product so that the company was profitable. I was simply responsible for making sure that one small piece of the operation
was completed as efficiently and accurately as possible. The rest was up to the CEO and the marketing department. I never worried about it. I never went up to the executive offices and made sure everything was ok. I would have been in their way, and not doing my own job. We have to get out of God’s way sometimes, and simply do what He has entrusted to us.
If God is behind it, then God will go before it. Jesus would never have called Peter out of the boat if he had not been 100% sure that Peter would be just fine. So here I am; one foot over the gunwale of my boat; the water tickling the soles of my feet. And the voice of my Lord is calling out to
me. So here I go.
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