Read: Matthew 14:22-33

So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. (v. 29)

Ask yourself this question: “Where do I find myself in this sacred story?” Are you sitting in the boat, a place of safety and security? Are you striding boldly across the sea? Or maybe you’ve begun to sink, crying out, “Lord, save me!”

The most decisive moments of life happen when, trusting in Jesus, we step out of the boat. Perhaps you’ve been unhappy in your job for too long, and the time has come to step out of the security it offers and pursue the work you sense you were created to do. Perhaps you’ve avoided speaking up, afraid you might be rejected, or afraid to disagree with a powerful person, and the time has come to tell it like it is. Perhaps your church keeps declining, getting older, getting smaller, afraid to adapt, afraid to step out into the community, and you are beginning to realize that unless you change, you have no future.

It’s scary to step out of the boat. But notice, in Matthew’s story: Jesus is not in the boat. He is not in the place of safety and security. Jesus is out walking on the waves.

Where is the Savior? He is out there on the sea, out there in the midst of the thing you most want to avoid. If you want to be with him, you have to get out of the boat. “Take heart . . . do not be afraid.”

Prayer:

Lord, help me to step out of the boat.

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