Don't rock the boat!

"Don't rock the boat" is a metaphor that is used to say "don't do anything that will jeopardize your safety."

In our lives, most of us have the tendency to stay where it's comfortable. We don't like to risk things. Even if it's a situation that we don't like, if it's familiar, we tend to stay there. I think that's why some of us have friends that we know are toxic, or we still go to familiar places that we visited before we were saved.

"Don't rock the boat!"

"Go with the flow"

"It isn't that bad, is it?"

These are all things that we tell ourselves just to get by sometimes... but... what if God is calling us to get out of the boat?

When Jesus began his ministry there were two brothers... I won't tell you the story, I'll let you read it for yourself:

And going on a little father, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending nets. And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him. - Mark 1:19-20

James and John had a family fishing business that provided them a reasonable amount of safety. They were doing well enough to have hired servants that worked with them! But when they heard the voice of Jesus, they immediately left everything to chase after God.

I don't think this passage is saying quit your job today, but I think this passage is asking us if we have this place of safety that we are relying on that is preventing us from hearing the voice of God and moving into action when He calls us!

Let's spend the day listening to the voice of God, and answering the call when He asks us to get out of the boat! This may look like different things to different people. He could be asking you to take the kids to a different park today because there's someone there that needs to hear from Him...

Selah

The Walking Dead

Right now, zombie movies and television shows are very popular. Zombie are essentially dead people who don't know that they are dead. Their animated corpses wander around aimlessly with one goal in mind. EAT. FEED. The problem is that they consume and consume and they are never satisfied!

This is what life is without Christ. As Christians, we see the walking dead around us every day. We see people who are dead inside, but try to fill their lives with alcohol, sex, relationships, going to the gym, work... the list goes on.

They try the same thing over and over expecting happiness, but it just doesn't happen!

Ephesians 2:1-9 explains it this way:

 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body[a]and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.[b]4 But[c] God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

In every zombie movie I've seen, the "survivors" are in one of two different camps:

• those doing what it takes to survive
• those working on a cure

Christians doing what it takes to survive are missing out on great adventures that God has in store. We have the cure to life and were even commissioned to take this cure that we call the gospel and share it with the world!

Let's put Christianity in action and let's cure the walking dead!