Fixing Your Eyes on Jesus

“Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.”You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?" Matthew 14:31(N.I.V)

Leornado da Vinci - Walking on water

When we depend on the power of God, He upholds us, but when we try to use our own power we fail. Our hopes must rest only on the Lord’s mercy. We keep on relearning this lesson, because we tend to forget all the times God came through for us.

Simon Peter had witnessed first hand many of Christ’s miracles. Jesus had just calmed the waves that had threatened to topple their boat. Jesus was walking on water towards their boat and Peter wanted to be able to do the same. Jesus called out to him to do so, and he did, he was able to walk on water too. But then he looked down and contemplated how impossible what he was doing was, and started sinking. It is only when he looked again at Jesus and got His hand to support him that he was able to walk again on water. Jesus asked him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

Let us not forget to fix our eyes on Jesus. Let us erase our doubts and grow in faith, trusting that with God, everything is possible. We are able to walk on the surface of the waters of our problems, without sinking.

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Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ~ Hebrews 12:2

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