A Song for Sunday: "Walk on the Water"

"You look around and staring back at you. Another wave of doubt. Will it pull you under? You wonder, what if I'm overtaken? What if I never make it? What if no one's there? Will you hear my prayer?" 

Those lines are the first verse to the Britt Nicole song "Walk on the Water". It goes on to say "When you take that first step into the unknown, He won't let you go. So what are you waiting for? What do you have to lose? Your insecurities, they try to alter you. You know you're made for more, so don't be afraid to move. Your faith is all it takes and you can walk on the waters too." 

Ever been there? The place where you are standing on the shore and God is calling you out to walk upon the waters. And the questions and doubts are raging through your mind. You're scared and you feel so small and insignificant.  Oh yeah, I have been there plenty of times. 

Everyday I have to ask myself if I am going to play it safe and stay on the shore or if I am going to take that first step out onto the water. Unfortunately many times I choose to play it safe and I miss out on so much. But on the rare occasions, when I decide to take that step out onto the waters, I am transformed and renewed. 

How much could we accomplish for Christ if we just chose to walk by faith out onto the waters every single day of our lives? How many lives could we change? How many people could we touch? These are the questions that I should be pondering as I stand on the shore and look out upon the water. 

I shouldn't let the what if's and the doubts get to me. But I do. I get scared and discouraged and I give up rather than place my life in His hands and go to where He is calling me. There is so much God wants to use me for and I stand on the shore rather than follow His leading and see what He has in store.

 It's the unknown and it scares us. We like to know what's coming up ahead. We hate it when we are called to step out in faith, not knowing what is going to happen. We think it would be better if God laid out the game plan to us. But He calls us to step out in faith and fully trust Him, even when we don't know what is going to be beyond that next wave. 

Are you willing to step off the shore today and out onto the water, fully knowing that you don't know what is going to take place? I hope you are and I hope I actually do it, instead of just saying it. We can all find comfort in the promise that He won't let us go. Let's take that first step and just see what God will do.