Is this you? Me? - When Peter took his eyes off Christ he became inert on that turbulent sea and sank.
How often is that me?
How often do I look away and see the worries and pressures and desires of this world?
Too often.
A Fear takes the steering wheel. A Fit of Depression eats pieces of my life like some foul beast.
And I cry out to God in self pity, "Where are You? Why have You brought me here?!"
As if it was His fault and not mine. Or the circumstance was beyond what He could overcome and see me through.
It happens to all of us. Sooner. Later. In seasons of our lives we wouldn't expect or didn't know we were in.
How did Peter get out of that drowning state? He called upon Christ and took the small effort of reaching out a hand.
All this to say I was blessed by Victoria Gaines's post Windows to My Soul: Overcoming Inertia: Take a Step.
When life smacks with disappointment, my natural response is to stagger a bit, then sink into the quicksands of inertia. If I'm not careful, depression will have its way with me.
Life's setbacks and losses are inevitable. If my faith is wobbly, I'm prone to hesitate, procrastinate, or lose heart entirely. My prayers hit the wall whenever I ask the Lord, "So what do I do now? What are you gonna do?" But, as Oswald Chambers explains, "God does not tell you what He is going to do--He reveals to you who He is."
