When do we stop trusting in what we can do and begin trusting another?  When do we pull away our hands from turning this and twisting that, realizing that when we remove our hands, that is when we fully trust?

Life is precarious.Life is also a vapor.Life is given, just as life can be squandered, enjoyed, hoarded, and even denied.

Life.Is life something we TRULY own?

Is it a vapor that we daily walk, quickly passing through on our way to death?

Quite a morbid thought (if that’s all we realize about our lives).

Can our lives be preparation, a journey given to us individually as we each walk toward our chosen eternity?

Life begins with purpose.  For 9 months (the usual length God provides for a baby to form in a womb) a life prepares for survival outside the cocoon of the womb. Unfortunately, some lives are aborted before their birthdate arrives, gone, taken, denied a chance to experience life, but that’s topic reserved for another time. There are those lives who are carried in a mother’s womb, but for medical reasons, their lives are born early and arrive, struggling to survive, striving each day given, fighting to grow stronger, knowing from their birthdate that they must be courageous, brave, and tenacious, even as they face the world too soon. Nine Months.  They pass so quickly; yet, that’s what God chooses, to prepare us, to get us ready for life, for birth.

Then what?  Childhood. An opportunity to grow, to study the patterns of our parents, and to learn, fully preparing for the time we will leave our parents, waving goodbye as we step inside our elementary school, then into middle school, followed by high school, and then headed off to the university or military or a life-trade.

So, when do we really begin life? When do we trust ourselves enough to know we finally have our life headed in the right direction? How much time and education must surely be acquired before we know that our life has finally begun, secure in the way we are traveling? 

Life.

We learn so quickly what we can do. We learn what we think we should do, what we should not do, what we think we can and cannot do, and maybe we even learn as we journey what we just will not do.   It is a fact that what we think is impossible, we probably will not do, giving up even before we actually step out to do. Yet, the reality is—-what we CAN DO does not come until we place our trust in the One, giving our full trust to the One who created our lives and counted out our days, even before we had even one day.

God can do all things, whatever He chooses, and amazingly God even allows Himself to live through us AS we live our one life. Yet, God will not ever force Himself upon us, even though God created us.

Today may seem like a ramble of words, but the intent is to reveal that our life is a really a destination, a single choice, a decision, a YES or a NO.

That’s It. YES, LORD or NO, NOT TODAY.

That’s It. That’s Life.

Pretty simple. Some may even call that a sadness, but there’s more.  When we choose, when we decide, when we turn and begin to move, walking toward our chosen eternal destination, that’s when life begins.

Choosing God. Choosing to say, “Yes , LORD, I want You; Saying to God, “I trust You God to have my life, to use it, to have Your way with me,”

That’s When Life Begins.

The apostle Peter was such a rash man, a fisherman by trade, choosing a life on the sea, choosing to cast his nets daily, hopeful that the fish would swim into the nets, providing Peter with the catch he so needed to sustain for another day. Peter lived a pretty simple life……UNTIL Jesus met him one day on the shoreline, and said to Peter, “Come, follow me.” Peter did not hesitate. He pulled his vessel up farther onto the shore, laid aside his nets, and followed Jesus. Peter did not know how he would live, how he would eat, where he would sleep, or even where he would travel. Peter just trusted. Peter just looked at Jesus and said, “Yes LORD.”

Trust really is not so complicated.

Trust really is a childlike endeavor.

Trust surely is an instantaneous action.

TRUST IS A DECISION.

When we think about all the things we do and do not know, what we do know is so much smaller than what we do not know.  God says individually to each of us, “Come walk with Me. Come follow Me. Come trust Me. Trust and Come. “That’s It………

Who do we trust with our life?

Who do we trust with our own life?

Others—-like our friends?  Our parents? Our families?

Who would we give full control of our life, to lead where He goes, to travel along with as we go, to do with as HE pleases, fully knowing that HE loves us unconditionally, fully, and without any boundary?

Can we trust God (as Peter did) with our life?

With all the details of our life?

With our Eternity?

With our Years?

With our Today?

As surely as we know our own name, we can remain sure that God will NEVER stop loving us.  It’s a promise of God, and the Bible says God will not and cannot lie. God will remain faithful to His purpose. God came to provide life. God sent Jesus to save us from eternal lostness and hopelessness. God sent His only Son, Jesus, to walk with us, but we must first choose Him. God sent Jesus so our life-path could become revealed, so our path could be seen as He unfolds our days. Peter had an awesome opportunity to test his trust, to see how much trust he actually had in Jesus, and quite amazingly, Jesus allowed Peter to see this lesson in his favorite place—-on the sea.

The day had been tiring, many had been fed (5,000+), the disciples were so tired, and they needed some rest. So Jesus encouraged His followers to get into the boat and journey to a quieter place for rest, and as they did, Jesus went to the mountaintop.  The boat ride began, night fell, and a storm arose.  Rather than rest, the disciples began to become afraid that they would capsize, drown, and die.  That’s when the disciples saw Jesus walking through the storm, coming toward them, walking on the water. At first, terror filled their throats, until they heard their LORD’S voice, speaking to them, “But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid. ‘Peter said to Him, ‘LORD, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water. ‘And He said, ‘Come!’ And Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus, But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, ‘LORD, save me.’  Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, ‘You of little faith, why did you doubt?’ When they got into the boat, the wind stopped. And those who were in the boat worshipped Him, saying ‘You are certainly God’sSon!'””(Matthew 14: 10-33)

There is a beautiful melody that speaks this scene through song. Listen to “Voice of Truth” sung by Casting Crowns, if you will today.

Jesus came to earth to provide life.  He came for that sole purpose so we can personally know Him as Savior of our life.

Amazingly, TRUST IS SUCH A SIMPLE ACTION.

So simple. One step. One single step of faith.

Will you choose this day to Step, to Trust Jesus?

Will you lay down your nets, pull your boat onto the sand, look to Jesus, and fully turn and follow Him?

Will you step out onto the water and see Jesus as He truly IS–God’s Son!!!

Quite Simple Indeed.

Two simple words—-‘Yes, LORD.”