It’s Friday…Ignore Them

If our ears are truly sensitive and open to the voice of Jesus, we will probably receive a daily does of rebuke from Him. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a gentle rebuke, coming from the One who understands our frailties better than we understand ourselves. 

Yet, His rebukes are a firm reminder that the life we live as His followers is to be radically different from dependence on our human senses and reasoning that most of the world understands.

Matthew 14:22-33 tells us about an incident that Peter had with Jesus. In this story, Peter has put Jesus to the test, in a sense. And Jesus lets him. “Come,” Jesus says, inviting Peter to walk on water just as He is doing. Peter’s resulting experience mirrors ours. We hang in the balance been faith and unbelief, alternating fixing our eyes on Jesus and then on the waves crashing around us. 

Unfortunately, the latter frequently looms larger to us. We sometimes even obsess about the winds and the waves, which do not hesitate to tell us that we are doing the impossible – living supernatural lives. Frequently, we listen to them, and we sink.

But the call of Jesus is this: “Come.” We are to live supernatural lives. We may think we are being appropriately sensible when we measure the wind and waves and proceed with caution. But Jesus urges us to ignore them all together and fix our eyes on Him.

He alone is the true measure of our situation. When He tells us to step out on the water, we can, regardless of how many contrary warnings against it we have ever heard or imagined. His is the only voice we must hear.

“You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?” (Matthew 14:31)

The circumstances of our lives, whether unusual cries or everyday difficulties, batter our senses into believing untruths. Yes, we cower at the authority of these winds and waves – these concrete illusions – as though their authority is real. It isn’t.

We must do what is extremely difficult for us human beings to do – Ignore Them. We must get to the point where we hear the voice of Jesus alone and become deaf to all others. Then we will know what it’s like to walk on the waters of faith.

Have an inspiring weekend. Make it better by worshiping The LORD with those who receive His gentle rebuke as a word of adventure and supernatural possibilities.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)