Mat.14:26  En toe die dissipels Hom op die see  sien loop, word hulle ontsteld en
sê: Dit is ‘n spook! En hulle het  geskreeu van vrees.
 
27  Maar Jesus het dadelik met hulle  gespreek en gesê: Hou goeie moed, dit is Ek! Moenie
vrees nie. 
28  En Petrus antwoord Hom en sê: Here,  as dit U is, beveel my om op die water  na U te kom. 
29  En Hy sê:  Kom! Petrus klim toe van die  skuit af en loop op di 
water  om na Jesus te  gaan. 
30 Maar toe hy die sterk wind sien, het hy bang geword; en toe hy begin sink, roep  hy uit en sê: Here, red my! 
31 Jesus het dadelik sy hand uitgesteek en hom gegryp en vir hom  gesê: Kleingelowige,
waarom het jy getwyfel?   
Petrus  het op die water geloop, maar  hy het  begin sink toe hy  sy oë van Jesus
af wegdraai en begin kyk  na  die golwe en die wind.  Sy geloof het
eerste gesink, want hy het vergeet ons wandel deur geloof en  nie aanskouing
nie (2Kor.5:7). 
Jy  mag dalk  nie besig  wees  om op water te loop  nie, maar jou  probleem is  net so groot. Die wind  waai en die golwe  bruis, moenie daarna  kyk  nie, kyk  na Jesus. Moenie na die omstandighede kyk  nie, jy gaan sink, hou jou  oë op Jesus gevestig, Hy is die enigste een  wat
werklik kan help en Hy wil.  Volhard in die geloof, waak daarin met danksegging en jy
sal  ook op die water loop.

Gebed.
Baie dankie Vader,  dat Jesus nog steeds daar is om my te  help as  ek wil sink. Amen.


  

When we read a command in the Bible, whether we understand it or not, we ought to obey it. The Bible is not first and foremost a book to be explained, it is a book to be believed and obeyed.

So many times we want to tell God how He ought to do things. I can imagine those early apostles when they first met Paul persecuting believers. Those well-meaning Christians could have been praying for God to strike Paul dead - But what did God do? He struck him alive! And aren't you glad He did?

Don't substitute human reasoning for obedience. God says, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).


Adrian Rogers
© 2011 Love Worth Finding Ministries
www.lwf.org

 BIBLE MEDITATION: Joel 2:25 - "And I will restore to you the years that   the locust hath eaten."

  DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: Hosea had a wife whose name was Gomer. She not only  committed immorality, but she finally ended up as a prostitute on the  street. In the strength of the Lord, Hosea went to her, reclaimed her,  forgave her, remarried her and restored her as his bride. What a picture of the restoration of our Lord with us! God has promised to restore us
from all the pains of our past, the heartaches from broken relationships, the struggles from defeat, and the frustrations of our lives. All the  times we felt broken beyond repair, God has promised to restore. God is in  the business of restoring His children into beautiful works of His  holiness.


ACTION POINT: Is there someone in your life who has wandered from the  faith and felt the abandonment of friends and family? If so, go to that  person today and encourage them in the love of Jesus.