What describes your life?

Let me ask you this today.

What describes your life?  Which saying?

Which old adage offers the best council about life in general?

A.  Look before you leap
B.  He who hesitates is lost.

I would venture to guess that most are fall into category A.  They plan.  They figure things out.  They go by budgets.  They want to know that all of the bases are covered in order to move ahead.

I understand that but more importantly God understands that.

Yet the life that we live in Christ is a walk of faith, daring to risk when the occasion arises.

I hear church leaders say all of the time, "Let's see, regarding this or that work, will it pay?  It is going to be cost-effective?  Will everyone be pleased?"

We do very few things by faith.

I'm not talking about fiction or being presumptuous with God.

But I am speaking of allowing God to do the miraculous in our lives by walking by faith.  By daring to risk.  By realizing that budgets and plans are there as guidelines, but that ultimately we must keep on moving forward, we must keep on daring to risk.

I have a pastor friend who said, "The walk of faith is always on the brink of disaster."  He said that he was walking perpetually on other brink of disaster and on the verge of a miracle."

That is very true.

It can be very tempting in the midst of moving ahead for God to look for the easy path, the familiar, the predictable, to stay in shallow waters and peaceful places. 

Let's not give into that temptation!  Let's keep on moving ahead by faith.  Let's keep on going to the front of the battle and put ourselves on the line - for it is there that we begin to see the release of God's power and strength in our lives."

I leave you with something an acquaintance of mine, Dick Foth, once said, "Unless there is potential for failure in what you are doing, probably the spirit of God is not in it."