God has big plans for us. There is nothing little about God. That said, it does seem that we easily get
stuck in the details of life . . . the minute-really-doesn’t-matter-kind-of-details
. . . instead of understanding and
living like God is well . . . God. Sometimes
we connect more with our to-do list than with the One who does wondrous work in
our life.
So . . . how do we move from the
mundane and minute details and focus . . . really focus . . . on what more God
is doing? Most of the time, we need to
simply turn away from whatever is keeping us away from fully engaging our life
with God. In other words, we need to
take a gigantic flying leap of faith each day.
To get off the ground we must surrender
the mundane and minute things. Sometimes
it doesn’t make sense when we step out and many times others will point blank
say it doesn’t make sense. The thing is
. . . when we look back . . . we will see that what really made sense was to
live a God-driven and directed life . . . and to not hold anything back from
God . . . to give it all . . . and to take a flying leap of faith that God has something
more.
Look at what happened to the followers
of God . . . they changed the course of their life by choosing to have faith .
. . leaving their wandering life in the desert . . . taking an all out flying
leap of faith to cross the flooding waters of the Jordan River in order to
reach the land God had promised them. To
remember what was important Joshua instructed the people to set up 12 stones as
markers of faith: He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know
that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the
LORD your God." Joshua 4:24
The people in those ancient days are
much like you and me. They needed to be
routinely reminded that God is powerful, fearing or being in awe of God is
good.
Let go of the mundane and minute stuff.
Surrender everything.
Take a flying leap of faith.
Learning
with you to KICK START and take a flying leap of faith,
Pastor
Kerrie
(written
by Kerrie Palmer © 2010 All Rights Reserved)
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