Time to keep scrolling.
Time to put things off.
Time to look everywhere else before looking for Him.
And yet, while we think we have time, our life keeps moving forward.
We sometimes waste this precious time God gives us scrolling through meaningless videos, endlessly searching for something to distract us. We think we're simply entertaining ourselves, but behind this habit often lies a deeper reality: we're trying to escape what we feel, to avoid our problems, our worries, or the questions we don't want to face.
We try to silence the lack of peace and the lack of faith within us. But silencing them doesn't make them disappear. Often, what we refuse to face simply piles up.
What if we spent less time running from our reality and more time trusting the One who is able to transform it?
This is exactly what Peter's story teaches us.
Peter stepped out of the boat because he trusted Jesus. He did something that, humanly speaking, seemed impossible: he walked on water.
As long as his eyes were fixed on Jesus, he kept moving forward.
But when he began to look around him, he saw the wind, the waves, and the reality surrounding him. He began to look at what, for a human being, seemed impossible to face.
And then, he began to sink.
"O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" Matthew 14:31
And I believe this is very much like what we sometimes go through.
We love Jesus with all our heart. We believe in Him. We know He is capable of anything.
But when trouble comes, our focus shifts.
We stop looking at the One who can do all things.
We start looking at what seems impossible to us.
We fix our eyes on our problems.
We fix our eyes on our fears.
We fix our eyes on our wounds.
We fix our eyes on our future.
We fix our eyes on everything we cannot control.
And by staring so intently at what overwhelms us, we forget the One who is greater than all of it.
We begin to sink, not because Jesus is no longer there, but because our eyes are no longer fixed on Him.
Our phones.
Our distractions.
Our ambitions.
Our problems.
Our fears.
The world.
All these things can gradually take God's place in our sight.
And yet Jesus is still there.
His hand outstretched.
He didn't leave Peter when he began to sink. He didn't abandon him because his faith had faltered. He reached out His hand and lifted him up.
And maybe today, God isn't asking you to understand everything.
Maybe He's simply asking you to lift up your eyes.
To stop looking only at what's right in front of you.
To stop measuring things by your own limited, human ability.
To stop believing that because a situation seems impossible to you, it's impossible for God too.
Because what we see as a dead end can be a path for God.
What we consider impossible can be possible for Him.
And what we sometimes try to run from in our lives may be exactly the place where God wants to teach us to trust Him.
You think you have time.
But don't put off until tomorrow the relationship you can begin with Him today.
"Come." Matthew 14:29