Your experience of God will not be any greater than the extent to which you trust God. If you trust God little, you will experience God little. If you trust God a lot, you will experience God’s goodness and faithfulness a lot. How much are you trusting God right now? We tend to think of faith in a general way, as a set of beliefs about God. But faith is far more practical than that. It is trusting God with our lives and, again, not just in a general sense, but also for specific aspects of our lives. God wants us to trust him for specific things because faith is dead if it is not exercised. What is something specific that you are trusting God for right now? I remember once asking myself this question and being shocked at my inability to bring anything to mind. I could not identify anything that I was really depending on God for! I realised that my deficient experience of God was due to my self-reliance. Most people will celebrate self-reliance, and in one sense this is valid. It becomes a problem, however, when we lose a sense of our ultimate dependence on God. God wants you to grow beyond your own capacities. He is calling you out of the ‘boat’ of your self-reliance, to walk upon the water. He is calling you to aim for goals that you cannot achieve in your own power. And right now, there will be one small step of faith that God is asking for. There always is. Identify this and you will have begun your walk on the water.
How is God wanting you to exercise faith right now?
Read Matthew 14:22-36 again
