Written By Elsie Revange
During my worship time with God today, I was listing to “Oceans” by Hillsong. The first line, “You call me upon the waters, the great unknown,” really stood out to me. I realized when singing this song, I am basically asking God to lead me to a place where I have no knowledge about. During this time, a few questions came to my head. Do I really trust God? Do I even trust God to lead me into the unknown? Do I have the faith to drop everything I am doing in life right now and go to where God is telling me to go? I am going to be 100 percent honest; at the time, I didn’t. I didn’t because I couldn’t see the outcome of my decisions. I am the type of person with a backup plan for any and everything, I usually don’t make life decisions without a plan. I have to physically see and write down a plan, just in case something goes wrong in my life.
I believe this is where faith comes in. A lot of us don’t have faith right now because we can’t visually see the next steps of God’s plan for our lives.
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)- “Faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV)- “Walk by faith and not by sight."
I have been studying the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, and came across a few people that took a leap of faith. One of them was Abraham; God told Abraham to pack up all his belongings and go to a place far away. Even though. Abraham didn’t know where he was going; he still chose to obey and have faith that God was leading him. Many more did the same: Noah when building the ark, the army that marched around the Jerico wall, and Sarah when she thought she couldn’t bear a child.
I recently had a conversation with a few of my friends about quitting both of my jobs. I mentioned how I felt like God was telling me to leave them both. They said it might be a leap of faith. They encouraged me to take that leap. Unfortunately, it took me a few weeks to make the decision. But eventually, I did! I finally took a leap of faith! I had to constantly remind myself that God has a plan. Even though I can’t see what lies ahead or understand how things will work out, I know God has already planned out every detail in my life.
Words of encouragement don’t take the next steps in life thinking you are going to physically see everything planned out; take the next steps knowing God has already planned it out! I pray that God makes a way in my life and anyone else that is deciding to take a leap of faith as well!
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