ARISE Beirut

✨ “Come”, walk above the waves. That was Jesus’ invitation to Peter and it is His invitation to us today.

When Jesus called Peter out onto the water, He wasn’t calling him out to drown, He was calling him out to trust. He wanted to show Peter that the impossible is possible if we fix our eyes on Him.

In a modern world that is filled with distractions, we can easily take our eyes off of Jesus. We can begin to shift our focus onto the circumstances instead of the One who gives us strength. Work, finances, relationship problems, or fear that we will never be able to do what He has called us to do can begin to pull us under, and, like Peter, we soon realize that we have lost sight of our source of power.

“Save me, Lord!” was Peter’s immediate cry in that fearful moment, and it should be ours too when we realize that we are sinking.

God is a rescuer who won’t let us drown when we call out to Him, but His desire is for us to trust that if we faithfully keep our eyes on Him, He will do the impossible in our lives and hold us above the waves.

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