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
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