“I can’t do this!” I shouted back at my instructor. He simply smiled and said, “You have all you need. You need to trust me and trust yourself. Take one step back and believe this rope has you.” I was standing seventy-five feet off the ground on a ledge of a rock with a harness around my waist and my rope tied into my instructor. It was up to me to take the step off the ledge and believe that I could rappel down the side of this mountain. I had all I needed but I had to take that scary step of faith.

Peter writes in 2 Peter 1:3-4 “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”

Faith is believing God is powerful and good. He is like a rope tied around you as you dangle above whatever fears and uncertainties that are in your life. Yet you will not know if that rope really has you until you take the step of faith and put your weight into it. The first step is the hardest because it has the most uncertainty. When I am not willing to take the first step and trust God, it is usually because I either question HIs power or His goodness. 

Peter reminds us that we have all we need to live this life and escape its corruption. God is powerful and He is good. Though we tend to break promises, God is a promise keeper. Remember, a rope does not work until it is under tension. Faith does not work until it is under tension. The first step is the hardest. God has you and His promises are always true. 

Pastor Aaron