God isn't a genie in a magic bottle. He loves to give His children His
gifts - but what I think He wants most is our heart and our trust. Jesus
invites Peter to step out of the boat while the storm is happening.
While the storm is happening! Now, let me backtrack a second - the
disciples witnessed Jesus do a huge miracle that day - feeding of the
5,000 with what the little boy had - so they know what He can do.
They've walked closely with Him and have seen Jesus work! As soon as
Peter takes his eyes off of Jesus - he begins to sink in the water. God
is with us in the MIDST of our storm. We have His power to get through -
but when our eyes are off of Him - we see our storm and begin to sink.
When we sink - we cry out to Him and He saves. Our Savior, Look to Him
and keep your eyes there - not on the storm.
This week's blog topic from Proverbs 31 OBS is on “Worry”… AND I know a thing or two about worry. I’m betting a lot of you reading this do as well. Dictionary.com defines worry as: “ to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret. ” Torment oneself. Suffer. Fret. That’s what I can do to myself sometimes. I’ve heard that if you worry you don’t really trust that God can handle it. You don’t trust God with it. That’s hard to swallow for me. Because I worry about my kids, my family, me, friends, etc. But I’m in the Bible every single day. I am a Jesus girl. So for me to worry and then see that my worry means I don’t trust that God can handle it is hard. UGH. I am getting better about it though. My time with God every morning is helping. When I start to worry about something…I begin to pray. I stop the tormenting in it...
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