Our Text for today is Psalms 31:12-15. David wrote:
I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel. For I have heard the slander of many, Terror is on every side;While they took counsel together against me, They schemed to take away my life. But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, “You are my God.” My times are in Your hand.
May God bless the reading of this word.
Sometimes there are unbelievable risks. Think about the first person to fly across the Atlantic, or ride a rocket to the moon, or on purpose to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. They were no doubt nervous, but after assessing the risks, they decided to go for it.
The spiritual life also has risks—opportunities that challenge us to consider who we are and to call on us to leave our comfort zone and stretch the extent of our faith.
What Christians have that other risk-takers don’t have is the promise that God will be with us in every hard time. Consider Paul, for example, on his second missionary journey. He had no plan to go into Macedonia, but the door opened for that work.
He had no contacts, no plans, no means—he had nothing except a commission from Christ to take the Gospel to the Gentiles and do that work. Oh yea, he also had faith that God would be with him.
Paul took a faith-based risk and was blessed.
If you see an open door in your life for something that is worth doing, leave your comfort, and walk through that door.!
As one writer said, “It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.”