A Step of Trust

I was running before I knew I was walking. It came to me so fast, and I was gone just as. Nothing was perfectly clear as they said it was in those story books. Those story books say that life is a gift and so clean cut. Do you know when it's the right moment or is the moment right because you know it? Are they telling me the truth or are lies kissing me on the cheek?

It's like coming to a major intersection and waiting with a crowd of people on one corner of the four available that are all crowded with people. And as you wait for the white walking icon to flash, indicating that you may, indeed, walk across the street and the cars will (should) not run you over because of the red light in front of them, you look right and then left, wondering which would be safer or more direct a path to choose. I'm not talking about those fancy ones with diagonals through the middle, but those squares at any given four-way intersection marking the intersection of two streets with two-way traffic. (2x2=4) Yes, those.

You stand there and you wait. But when the cars stop, the icon flashes, and the crowds move, will you move with them?

Why would you move with them?

Is it because you're shoved along with them, forced to take the road and not go another way? Naturally, when it is crowded, it's easier to follow a crowd and not have to worry about being wrong, because if you were wrong, that would mean EVERYONE ELSE was wrong too, which might make you right? Or, maybe, it lessens the chance of you getting in trouble for or hit by a car, should one disobey the red light and bump you.

Or is it because you want to go with them, putting one foot in front of the other, taking step after step, closer to the other side of the streets according to your own will and right to exercise your freedom? It's not as though you are going where the others are going, right? I mean, you have your own destination and being on the same corner as the others doesn't mean you are in unity with them, bound to them for life and unable to make your own decisions. After all, what are the chances of that happening amongst strangers, unless you're all headed to the same LARGE event, eh?

What would happen if you just stood there, unwilling to move because you don't want to? Or, maybe, you think they're going the wrong way. Perhaps, you're afraid of crossing with so many people. You prefer walking the lane yourself whether it be for greed, safety, claustrophobia, and what not. What would be holding you back? Pride? Power? Prejudice? Pleasure? Sins? Laziness? Yes, that and many more possibilities that don't need to be named, right? Yes, those strongholds that keep you from moving from one side of nowhere to the other side of somewhere. You're at the intersection and faced with choices that will shape your life and form who you will be tomorrow.

... And you can't even cross the street without feeling a tumultuous wave of questions crash down on you.. as you wait for the walking icon to flash. And even when it does, you stand there, unable/unwilling to move.

I got news for ya. If you don't take a step of faith, you'll never get anywhere. Trust in God and He will help you through it all. If you REALLY think about it, God isn't merely the lights at the intersections of your life, but also the road you walk on to reach the other side. He knows us unlike anyone in our lives could EVER know us. He knows where we're going, when we'll get there, who we're with or will meet along the way, what we're going to be/do, and how we'll get there. He knows it ALL.

And yet, He left us the choice to take the first step. And He knows that, when we take that first step, all the other steps after that first step will bring us closer to Him.

Our God is an awesome God.

>> Does that make any sense?