How far does your faith take you?
"Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd."
The disciples had the faith to go out to sea trusting that Jesus would follow
They saw Jesus in the distance walking on water and were afraid, but Peter called out to Jesus "Lord, if it's you,tell me to come to you on the water"
With great faith he stepped out on the water and His faith took him far.
As he kept walking He started doubting himself, lost focus and started to fall.
But Jesus was right where he was falling in arms reach to pull him up.
"Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "
Aren't we all like that? When we have faith God starts to use us in unbelievable ways but then we start to doubt ourselves, think to much and eventually....fall. The awesome thing is: God knows how much faith we have and is there to pick up us right when we fall.
the disciples faith allowed them to go out to the sea
Peter's faith allowed Him to walk on water
Where does your faith take you?
Today we learned about discipleship
The way God created this to work: blows my mind.
How do I explain this?
We played a game to illustrate:
There are two rooms separated by a curtain so that you can not see into the next room from inside the room you are in. On the floor of one room is a grid. The goal is to get to the other side of the grid by finding the correct path. Only two people are allowed in at a time. The others must wait on the other side of the curtain in the next room. One person watches while the other tries to find out the correct path by making a guess. He progresses one square at a time if He makes a wrong move he is notified by someone else standing on the other side and must leave the room. The person that was watching before gets a chance and another person is sent in to watch the one trying to find the correct path (there is only one).
The whole team must make it across to the other side of the grid to win.
When one person makes it across they are allowed to help people trying to cross the grid if they ASK.
Sometimes the person trying to find the path forgets what happened before and the process starts over again.
Sometimes you mishear what someone said to you and go the wrong way
Sometimes you think you can do it on you own and don't trust in what others say
Sometimes you trust the wrong people or people who haven't really done it they just heard about it but doesn't really know the right direction
but you always get another chance.
Think about it. Disciplining?
We're all in this together to support each other and help each other.
Its easy to see someone who isn't as far as you and look down on them, instead of helping them.
God works in His own timing differently in each of our lives........
Some may be young but far ahead some may be old but just starting.
Thank God for where you are and always want to move farther to know Him more.
Look ahead to the people who have passed on ahead of you for wisdom and look behind to those behind you for support.
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My other roommate plays the trumpet. We jammed it sounds SOO SICK.
Living on the streets tomorrow
