How To Walk On Water

Have you ever felt like you are standing still and moving in slow motion while the world around you seems to be on fast forward? Lately, I have just been struggling to put one foot in front of the other. Who knows, maybe it's all the allergy medication? Or maybe it is the chaotic schedules? Or my husband's health?

OR........

Maybe it is me!!! Just ME!!!

Times like these....the "brussel sprouts" times, that I think about Peter. Ahhhhhhh, Peter, the greatest apostle. Jesus loved Peter just as He loves me! Something I have been pondering lately, while my world is in slow motion, is that Peter was a human sinner just like ME!! He was not a perfect man. He had faults. In fact, my favorite story is about Peter feeling a little like I do right now....
The disciples were in a boat and they saw a figure on the shoreline. After some debate, Peter realized that the figure on shore was Jesus. He locked his gaze on Jesus and he WALKED ON WATER!!!!! Peter did the impossible because he was so fixated and focused on Jesus! So that means I can do the impossible when I am fixated and focused on Jesus! WOW! "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

The rest of the story with Peter is that he sank into the water. The seas were rough that day. The swells all around him were tossing the boat about, yet there he was walking on water. When he started to focus on those swells and tried under his own authority to get to Jesus as fast as he could to save himself from the swells all around him....HE SANK!! WOW!! So this fast moving world all around me that I am trying to keep up with and saying to Jesus..."hold on, I gotta come up for air and I'll be right there" are the swells all around me that are causing me to sink!

Jesus, let my eyes focus on you and not the fast forwarding world (swells) all around me. I trust you to enable me to WALK ON WATER TOO!!!!