Me stepping out of the Boat

Its time to get real with you.
Its time to tell you about how I am stepping out of the boat.

I have been following Jarrid Wilson's blog for sometime now. Today I downloaded his book 30 Words to start going through as my daily devotional for this year.

Today the word that he choose to discuss as he opened his book was F A I T H. 

When I first thought about Faith, I thought about God's grace, God's timing, and God's commitment to us. I thought about the words I had learned in Sunday School growing up, the teaching my parents implanted into my life growing up in a Christian home.

As I read about faith this morning, I did not know how much I would use those words today.

In this first chapter on Faith, Jarrid talked about Petter and how he was a faithful servant who with all his heart loved Jesus. To initiate his faith Peter stepped off the safety and comfort of his boat as we see in Matthew 14:20. Although their were waves and rolling thunder, Peter took a step of faith toward his goal: JESUS.

Now you make ask, how does this apply to me and my day?

Yesterday I started my second semester of graduate school. When I fist started thinking about Graduate school I thought I was crazy. (I am not one who loves school, and it takes a lot for me to make the grades that I do.) As I began looking at jobs that I wanted, I saw how valuable a Master's Degree in Social Work would be.

"Sometimes having faith means engaging in something so bold that you will end up looking stupid if Jesus doesn't come through."- 30 Words

Last semester, I constantly questioned if I made the right choice in going straight through undergrad to graduate school. I made it through first semester, and I was proud of the grades that came along with it. Grades that reflected the effort that I put into that semester of learning to be a Graduate Student and bring my level of thinking to the next level.

Today, once all of the course sylabus' were in my hand, my heart began to beat at a faster pace. The semester was once again starting-this time at warp speed. As I looked over one course in specific and seeing that it was the exact same as a class I had in undergrad, I began to get frustrated and those why's started reappearing.

I cried on my drive home.
The pressure being released with every tear.

Once I got home, I had an email from a Early Childhood Organization that I am apart of with a "policy update"-something that included a pending legislation-something that I could use for my class assignments.

That was a total God moment. Showing me that my faith was so small. Showing that I need to be like Peter this semester and STEP OUT OF THE BOAT!  Showing that like Peter, my ultimate goal is JESUS and Jesus is going to take care of me in getting to the calling that he has placed on my heart. Like Peter, I need to have the Faith that God is going to take care of me. He has placed me specifically in this season for a purpose. I should not question my ability of getting to the end goal because Jesus is going to supply all of my needs.

Today, I encourage you to STEP OUT OF THE BOAT!

xoxo, 

Mindy