Taking Steps
Another Day Along the Way
Friday, February 10, 2006
Another day,
As is my custom, I arrived early for breakfast. While waiting for a friend, while reading, while thinking, the waitress brought me my Orange Juice. I asked, "How has your life changed since we talked?"
She said, "Not much has really changed. I'm still working two jobs and going to school. It is wearing me out."
"What do you really want to do and what can you do to make it happen?," I asked.
Her response was not only what she needed to say. It was what I needed to learn. "Like most people, I worry too much about being safe instead of doing what I really want to do,” she said. “As I nurse I could help so many people. But I would have to quit a job where I know what to expect and how to stay safe. That scares me. One day I plan to take a step of faith and really trust God. Not just say I trust Him, but really trust Him and step out of my other places of comfort. One day."
My friend arrived. We ate breakfast, talked, listened, thought, prayed and left for busy days in our busy worlds. While eating, I thanked Laura for her honesty. She spoke again, giving a short summary of her feelings; I told my friend her words were for us.
Worry. Being safe. Most of us live lives controlled by those words.
Take a step. Trust God. Most of us live with desires to do that.
Today, how can we defeat our worries and take steps? How can we trust God rather than our own assumptions of being safe?
The key is in that word: trust. True trust does something. It doesn't just believe or feel or contend. It acts.
Someone might soon ask me this question: "How has your life changed since we talked?" I pray I have something of eternal value to say.
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: "If we make bigness and efficiency a goal in itself, we may leave the church void of its original calling to be the living workings of the body of Christ before a watching world."
(The Great Giveaway, David E. Fitch)
Friday, February 10, 2006
Another day,
As is my custom, I arrived early for breakfast. While waiting for a friend, while reading, while thinking, the waitress brought me my Orange Juice. I asked, "How has your life changed since we talked?"
She said, "Not much has really changed. I'm still working two jobs and going to school. It is wearing me out."
"What do you really want to do and what can you do to make it happen?," I asked.
Her response was not only what she needed to say. It was what I needed to learn. "Like most people, I worry too much about being safe instead of doing what I really want to do,” she said. “As I nurse I could help so many people. But I would have to quit a job where I know what to expect and how to stay safe. That scares me. One day I plan to take a step of faith and really trust God. Not just say I trust Him, but really trust Him and step out of my other places of comfort. One day."
My friend arrived. We ate breakfast, talked, listened, thought, prayed and left for busy days in our busy worlds. While eating, I thanked Laura for her honesty. She spoke again, giving a short summary of her feelings; I told my friend her words were for us.
Worry. Being safe. Most of us live lives controlled by those words.
Take a step. Trust God. Most of us live with desires to do that.
Today, how can we defeat our worries and take steps? How can we trust God rather than our own assumptions of being safe?
The key is in that word: trust. True trust does something. It doesn't just believe or feel or contend. It acts.
Someone might soon ask me this question: "How has your life changed since we talked?" I pray I have something of eternal value to say.
Along the way,
Chris Maxwell
Powerful Statement: "If we make bigness and efficiency a goal in itself, we may leave the church void of its original calling to be the living workings of the body of Christ before a watching world."
(The Great Giveaway, David E. Fitch)
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