A Christian is Free -- And That Scares People

A Christian is free.  They are free from prejudice, are free to talk to Jews, to talk to Muslims, to Tax Collectors and Samaritans.
---And that is the problem. Christians are free and that scares people.--- I am free to be what God created me to be.  But do I act on it?
I don’t listen to the spirit enough as it is, and when I do listen, do I obey?
--- Do I scare you? Sorry to hear that, because Jesus will scare you even more. Too many Christians live in fear.
Jesus had the audacity to walk on water when we know as a fact that it cannot be done! Jesus knows we can't walk on water either.  In fact, he never asked the disciples to walk on water.  Sure, Peter challenged Jesus and he stepped out, but his faith was not on the lack of ability to walk on water, but trusting Jesus to be able to walk on water in spite of our abilities or faith.  He does not ask nor force us to walk on water. He just asks us to let him walk on water. And, like Peter, he allows us to join him in HIS walk on water. Will you let me walk on water too? Or will you stop me and say “It cannot and should not be done because it’s socially, politically, scientifically and religiously incorrect”?

Peter was free to ask the question about walking on water.  Jesus simply said "come".  But when Peter began walking (which was successful), he began to take his eyes off of Jesus and putting it into his own ability (or lack thereof), to walk on water.   About half way through his walk, he started questioning his rationality by thinking that this is impossible..."What am I doing?"  Jesus never asked Peter to walk on water, but he allowed him to participate with Jesus in His walk.  So why did Jesus say "Ye of little faith"?  Was it because Peter lacked the faith to walk on water?  Or was it that Peter didn't have enough faith to stay in the boat in the first place?  Or was it that he didn't have the faith to let Jesus do the walking and trusting Him to be who and what he is outside of Peters ability to reason or understand?   So we don't have the faith to do certain things, but then our faith should be in Jesus' ability and faith to do it and participate with Jesus.


So if we see someone (like Peter) began to "walk on water", is it our responsibility to tell them that it cannot or should not be done because of our paradigm?  Notice that none of the disciples on the boat stepped out, but then again, they didn't stop Peter either!  I'm not sure if that was good or bad, but no mention of their doubting talk.

Jesus has a habit of doing things in his humanity (flesh) that we cannot do.  Not that we don't have the desire, but our fear of failure and the thought of being told that we "lack faith" can stop us in our tracks and freeze. Or we do what the Israelite did when some marched against the "giants" when told not to.  We don't have the faith to let Jesus do it for us.

---He raised the dead when the body was in the grave for four days, while we say, “Well, he’s dead now, I guess that was God’s will” and never try.
---He turned water into wine, when we turn wine into water.

One man said “Here is some water, what is keeping me from being baptized?”; Jesus says “Here is some water, let’s take a walk together”.

Wow he scares me!
“I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly” ~ Jesus

Lets scare the hell out of people with the help of Jesus Christ!

Boyd Merriman

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