Jump in - the water's fine

When some people decide to follow Jesus, it's all at once and they jump right in.


(wait for the second kid)

Others have more of a process they need to go through and some have to put a toe in the water first.

When God brought His people to the land that He promised them, he said,

"When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river."
Joshua 3

Once they did, God parted the water in the river, just like He did earlier in the big migration story - parting the Red Sea. God spent 40 years teaching a people that they needed to trust Him. When he got them where they needed to be, he asked them to take the critical step in faith.

I'm not the first person to say this - but to me it seems that if you go and read that whole story, God wants us to trust Him and not ourselves. He wants us to leave our "good sense" behind and go jump in the river (lake).

What do you think? (read the story first)

Thanks to my Mom for sending me the video.