You Snooze You Loose
The Lord wants us awake. When we ask the Lord to open our eyes He is faithful to do it but we need to keep our eyes fixed on Him.
“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. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn 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.” “Take 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. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?””
Matthew 14:22-31 NIV
Peter asked the Lord to call him out and Jesus did. This is when he was tested in keeping his eyes fixed on Jesus and not on the tribulations and the waves surrounding him. It was Peter’s mission to keep faith to do what the Lord had called him out to do and not sink.
The Lord wants us awake and with our eyes wide open so that we do not sink.
The Lord also wants us to take the plank out of our own eye. This means that we need to focus on what is going on in our own heart, soul and relationship with Him so that we can grow before we can help others efficiently.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Matthew 7:3-5 NIV
