As you open my eyes to the work of your hands...
A leap of Faith.
There's a reason why leap is the preferred word for that.
There's a reason why it's not a step in faith, or a tiptoe into faith.
When you decide to have faith,
At the moment you decide to let go and let God,
you take more than one or two steps when you put your trust in the Plan set out for you.
You are taking that huge leap in accepting that everything that happens from here on out will be lifted up to Him.
It's a leap because it's not easy,
We take that extra time to calculate the distance and figure out whether you're going to make it to the other side or not.
We can't figure out what difference it makes to jump that distance or not?
What difference does it make if I just settle for meeting God halfway?
Take another second to think about that,
Settling for halfway means you fall.
Standing halfway means you teeter from your desires and God's Will - thinking you have the convenience of picking whichever one the situation might call for.
It is much easier to make our own decisions based on our own human instincts which is molded by our world today ( a morally deteriorating world - but our world nevertheless) than to put your faith in something that common sense in the secular world simply cannot explain.
But having faith only means that you're striving to be on track.
Like when you're driving on a really snowy day and you turn a corner,
then you realise that your car is starting to skid out of control.
Your first instinct is to slam on the brakes, but you're not supposed to cause that'll just make your car spin right around.
Instead you let go of the brakes, let the car get back on track, calm yourself down and regain steadiness.
Then you just keep driving.
More cautious this time around, but you keep driving.
When life starts to get out of control, we have this tendency to put our foot down and say, I can take control of this and start making decisions as we see fit at that moment.
Faith is like letting go of the brakes - of the need to control - and stepping back to see the big picture...and then to just keep driving.
Eventually, you'll get to where you were headed - refocused and alive.
I'm an overthinker and I like to take control.
It's a destructive combination.
I'm continually trying to change that. It is so hard but I can only trust that there's already a plan set out for me and all I have left to do is to not skid all over the place, so I can get there and discover it.
There's a reason why leap is the preferred word for that.
There's a reason why it's not a step in faith, or a tiptoe into faith.
When you decide to have faith,
At the moment you decide to let go and let God,
you take more than one or two steps when you put your trust in the Plan set out for you.
You are taking that huge leap in accepting that everything that happens from here on out will be lifted up to Him.
It's a leap because it's not easy,
We take that extra time to calculate the distance and figure out whether you're going to make it to the other side or not.
We can't figure out what difference it makes to jump that distance or not?
What difference does it make if I just settle for meeting God halfway?
Take another second to think about that,
Settling for halfway means you fall.
Standing halfway means you teeter from your desires and God's Will - thinking you have the convenience of picking whichever one the situation might call for.
It is much easier to make our own decisions based on our own human instincts which is molded by our world today ( a morally deteriorating world - but our world nevertheless) than to put your faith in something that common sense in the secular world simply cannot explain.
But having faith only means that you're striving to be on track.
Like when you're driving on a really snowy day and you turn a corner,
then you realise that your car is starting to skid out of control.
Your first instinct is to slam on the brakes, but you're not supposed to cause that'll just make your car spin right around.
Instead you let go of the brakes, let the car get back on track, calm yourself down and regain steadiness.
Then you just keep driving.
More cautious this time around, but you keep driving.
When life starts to get out of control, we have this tendency to put our foot down and say, I can take control of this and start making decisions as we see fit at that moment.
Faith is like letting go of the brakes - of the need to control - and stepping back to see the big picture...and then to just keep driving.
Eventually, you'll get to where you were headed - refocused and alive.
I'm an overthinker and I like to take control.
It's a destructive combination.
I'm continually trying to change that. It is so hard but I can only trust that there's already a plan set out for me and all I have left to do is to not skid all over the place, so I can get there and discover it.