Undaunted Student Edition by Christine Caine

Author:Christine Caine [Caine, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780310743118
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2013-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

BOLD ENOUGH TO GO WHERE YOU NEVER IMAGINED

In Matthew 14:22–33, when a storm came upon Peter, a fisherman used to choppy waters, he faced the choice of giving in to fear or stepping out in faith. Peter knew how to make his way through a storm. He practically lived on the water! But he also knew his limitations. All his fears were whispering in his head, as they were in the heads of his companions: The winds are too fierce, the waves too high, the boat too fragile in this gale. Everyone in the boat began to cower in fear, their concentration fixed on all the dangers of the storm.

Just as Peter was about to give up himself, he looked out on the water and saw…

Jesus?

Yes, Jesus. Walking on the water, walking through the storm! He called to Peter to step out into the storm as well, to step out of the boat and onto the water, to step into the danger and out of fear, to take a step of faith.

And Peter wanted to do it!

“Come,” Jesus said to him (Matthew 14:29).

So, believing that with Jesus, one can do anything, Peter took that step of faith, his eyes fixed on the Lord. One step—and just like that, he was walking through the storm, undaunted by danger, defying it even, doing the miraculous.

And then an especially large gust of wind swept over Peter, spray whipped his face, and his attention was back on the storm. The waves are too high, he must have thought, the wind too fierce, Jesus too far away…

But Peter’s vision was clouded by the storm. His sight was deceiving him. Jesus was never far away. He was with Peter in the storm, right there when the greatest gale blew.

“Immediately,” the Bible says, “Jesus reached out his hand and caught [Peter] (Matthew 14:31). “ ‘You of little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’ “

Why do we doubt?

Jesus beckons us to come. If we stay focused on him, we will be able to go anywhere and do whatever is required of us. If we take our eyes off him and stare at the storm, at the danger, we will surely sink. We will never go to the millions trapped out there in the darkness of human trafficking, or the millions without water, or the millions suffering abuse, disease, famine, injustice, loneliness, or hopelessness.

To get to them, we may have to walk on water.

Fear and faith cannot coexist. As I faced my own limitations and fears, was I going to believe God’s truth or the lies of the enemy, reflected in my own emotions? Was I going to choose fear of the world—or faith in the one who has overcome the world?

Choose to trust the Creator of the universe, the one who hung the moon and placed the stars and fixed the sky.

“Go,” he says…

“… and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.

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