A Christ Follower: The Journey

Save Me Lord! Peter --Aka --The Rock Jesus was doing the kind of things that were normal for Jesus to do, as He walked on the water without disturbing the fish.  The disciples, including Peter, were in a boat and it appeared to be a bit stormy.  BUT they were very safe in the boat.  Something certainly got into Peter, and he wanted to be like Jesus.  He wanted to walk on the water.  So, he decided to ask Jesus, "May I come out there and walk on the water with you?"  Or he said something to that effect. Jesus said, "Sure, come on out here."  And Peter did just that. Keep in mind, while Peter was in the boat, it was bouncing around like a B-B in a box car. Not only that, but the waves were REALLY HIGH! The Darkness was very real, and he could have easily been frightened in that pitchy little boat bobbing around like a cork in the water. In other words, it seemed to be a stormy event taking place. Still Peter stepped out in the water, and sure e...

"Be Still And Know That I Am God." David --Psalm 46:10       Sometimes life comes at you too fast! You hurry and you go! You get faster and faster and faster!  Where you stop nobody knows! The pressure can be so much that you are churning from the outside into the inside out.  You can not catch up, and you could just scream and shout! Spiritual problems, emotional problems, relational problems, financial problems and physical problems may come at you quickly one at a time or all at once. Life, as it did with David, literally begins to shake rattle and roll. You can't eat. Or you eat too much.  Your stomach is in knots.  The anxiety builds and the tears flow.  A sense of being abandoned and lost may not seem to be ever going to let you go. It can be  downright overwhelming, and you just want to roar "STOP!"       This is how it was with David as he wrote the words I have shared in this blog.  Now he comes to a ...

"Come and see what the Lord has done." David -- Psalm 46: 7       David enjoyed God's refuge because He genuinely paid attention to what God was doing as he faced the obstacles of his life:  He fought and won some hard fought battles.  He even literally took on his own giant in the form of Goliath.  He defeated him as well.   He paid attention to what the Lord had done in his life, and it built his faith. You may or may not remember how that, while much stronger men were shaking in their sandals, David told everyone he could defeat the huge Philistine. But this small man had to convince the King named Saul -- who by the way stood head and shoulders over David -- that he was up for the task.  In doing so, David told Saul about how he had taken on wild animals to protect his sheep.  He informed Saul that just as God had delivered these beast of prey into his hands, that God would do the same for him in his battle against the giant.  ...