Post by Les Brewer on Feb 3, 2018 13:37:31 GMT
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Step Out In Faith -Stuart Dublin
READ! Luke 22:35
Then Jesus asked them, 'When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?' 'Nothing,' they answered.'
In Matthew 10 Jesus calls the disciples, gives them authority in His name and sends them out, telling them to go minister to the lost sheep of Israel. He then tells them to take nothing with them - no money, no bag of belongings, not even sandals for their journey.
Can you imagine being sent out like this? No time to pack. No time to shop. No mobile phone. Just go. Most people would shudder at the thought. And yet the disciples do just as Jesus asks. They return and later, in Luke 22:35, we get "the rest of the story." When Jesus sent them out with nothing they lacked nothing.
Sometimes I think God just wants us to obey like He asked the disciples to do. As His disciples, He wants us to have the kind of child-like faith it takes to say "yes Lord, I will go." He wants us to fully trust in His ability to provide our every need and overcome our every contingency or fears.
Perhaps God has asked you to do something that feels a bit like running out without purse, bag or sandals. Maybe He's asking you to go on a mission trip that scares you, to reach out to someone who frightens you, to tackle a problem that feels bigger than you and you feel unprepared. Jesus wants us to step out in faith, trusting that, like the disciples, on the other side of this adventure we will be able to say that we lacked nothing. What we need most is faith in Him.
And that is my prayer for us today.
