WALK BY FAITH (PETER WALKING ON WATER)
"Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. ‘It’s a ghost,’ they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: ‘Take courage! It is I. don’t be afraid.' ‘Lord, if it’s you,’ Peter replied, ‘tell me to come to you on the water.'
‘Come,’ he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus." (Matthew 14:22-29)
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1)
I often liken faith to a scene from the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indiana stands at the edge of a gaping chasm. He must enter a door carved into the side of the opposite cliff. It is a humanly impossible feat, but the written clues he has before him state that if he has the faith, he can walk across thin air to the other side of the chasm.
After a minute or two in the crucible, he finally finds the faith to step off the cliff into the chasm, believing (as his clues guarantee) that he will be able to walk across the air to the other door. As soon as he takes that first step in faith he finds, much to his relief, that there is a solid stone bridge beneath his feet disguised to look like part of the chasm. He safely walks on the solid rock all the way to the door in pure amazement.
Faith in God is a lot like this. We may not be able to see him at first or believe we can stand on his promises (recorded in the Bible), but when we take that first step in faith we find out that he has been that rock solid bridge all along.
Christian faith is trust in the substantiated reality that already exists even though we cannot see it. For example, we cannot see microwaves, but we fully believe they exist and exercise our faith in them every time we use them to heat our food. The Amplified version of the Bible, which expounds the original Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible defines faith like this: "Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]." (Hebrews 11:1, Amplified Version)
When we take that first step in faith, we will discover that, infinitely more than that stone bridge or those microwaves, God is firmly beneath our feet. Until then, our perception of reality is faulty, and the truth is disguised from us.
The only way to discover God's solid truth is to take that first step in faith. We will always find Him firmly beneath our feet. God's Word (the Bible) is that rock solid truth.
"We live by faith, not by sight." (2 Corinthians 5:7)
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