Step out of your comfort zone. Good advice, but oh, how the
human heart often yearns to sink back into that safe space where things are
familiar and no hard decisions or actions are required.
I am reminded, especially in decisions regarding my mother,
that it is in stepping out of my comfort zone that I am enabled to more fully ‘trust
in the Lord with all my heart’. Medical and financial decisions are not my
forte, and so I am very aware that in making them for her, I do so prayerfully.
Life feels like being in a boat rocking on the rising waves
of an approaching storm. Global events are disturbing, often shocking and
upsetting. Local situations can also be alarming. Jesus doesn’t advise that we
hang on tight in our own spaces, batten down the hatches, and stay safe. Instead,
he invites us to step out of the boat and know the exhilaration of walking on
the water – turbulent though it may be – with him.
May I live in anticipation of what he will do as I trust in
him with all my heart, and don’t lean on my own understanding, which is so myopic
and clouded. Today, in whatever I do, may I do it with my eyes firmly fixed on
Jesus, who enables me to do much more than I can even imagine.
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