The Endless Immensity

And Peter answered Him and said, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water." So He said, "Come." And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
-Matthew 14:28-29 (NKJV)

"Come." It is perhaps the simplest command ever uttered, and likely the most frightening. Jesus' words, the very call on our lives, echo off the caverns of our hearts. It is here we feel a weight so far unknown to us, as we peer from the edge of the our rickety boat of safety and comfort into the wild unknown Waters – a promised land full of mystery and depth.

"The call of God," Oswald Chambers reminds us, "is like the call of the sea. It can only be heard by those who have the nature of the sea within them."

The waves swell and the winds howl and somehow we know our place is with Jesus, wherever He is, even in the midst of the storm. Our call then is to simply come, to walk where Jesus walks, to live as He lives. And He lives with deep passion and compassion.

May we then like Jesus long deeply for the immensity of our Father God. And may we, like Him, pray "with loud cries and tears" (Hebrews 5:7) to our Rescuer as petition of, and for, and from our deepest hearts.

I agree with what Antoine de Saint-Exupery once declared. "If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

I am honored to be in your fellowship, walking on the swelling water in our longing to be with the Living God.