Jump Ship

Jesus said Mathew 14:27-29: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

Did you know that there is a space between two certaintitys? It’s called doubt. When we move from our past which was a certainty, to our future which will be a new one, there is an in between time. Moving from what was, to what is can be a difficult transition. There is a five letter word that can creep in and cause a lot of turmoil in our lives. Doubt.

Peter did something that didn’t make any sense, and wasn’t a very comfortable thing. But that didn’t stop him. He saw the Lord and he went towards him. I’m sure as his foot left that boat, he heard doubt say;” your going down, what are you doing?” But it didn’t matter, he did it, afraid anyway. Fear and faith, both at work, but faith won!

And he did something that no one else has ever done before…

Peter Jumped ship and walked on water. Peter acted in faith. despite how it looked and felt. Peter also had a moment where he then saw the natural more than the spiritual and he started to sink in the very water he walked on. Jesus saved his boy and carried him back to the boat. Does that negate the fact that he acted with a pure heart and a sincere desire to believe. No, it doesn’t.

Not for Peter, and not for you and I. It is written that ” Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1 NIV) But how is it that when we try to walk by faith, the things that we see are the things we think have all the substance?

Faith is not faith until it is challenged. If nothing ever challenges you or brings a question mark to mind, than it is nothing more than blind faith. How will we know what our faith is made up of, unless doubt shows up and shakes it to the core?

Having faith does not mean that their is an absence of doubt and fear. Doubt and fear are not your enemies. They are a gift to show you what is hidden beneath the surface. They will show you which voice you listen to the most. They will allow you to see all the residual unbelief that hinders you. So that you may get rid of it.

Faith is not just knowing God can, but that he will. Faith is believing in your heart even while your mind may be in doubt. Take the adversity of trials and uncertainties and use them to work for you not against you. The greater your trouble, the greater your God is to get you to the great triumph you’ve been holding out for.

When it’s time, to let go and let God, go ahead and jump ship.

Pastor Kirt Eure

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Pastor Kirt Eure

The Shift from an emphasis on religious values to an emphasis on secularism. Twenty years ago most people were religious, and virtually everyone had some kind of church background. Today we cannot assume that everyone we meet has a religious background. For instance, seventy-one percent of the people born after 1965 have had no religious training.

Their parents were the “children of the sixties”  where the predominant philosophy of life was “if it feels good, do it.” Many of these adults have no childhood memory of church attendance because their parents never took them.

Many have never heard The Lord’s Prayer because it was taken out of the schools. They don’t own a Bible and wouldn’t know what to do with it if they did. They don’t understand “Christianese”  or any of the terminology used in the church.  This kind of person thinks church is boring and irrelevant and they can’t imagine why anyone would want to waste time by going to church.

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