“It’s a ghost!”
What does this phrase make you think? Scary? Funny? Curious? Unbelievable?
Whatever your thoughts, the disciples were afraid. When they were in a boat, in the middle of a storm, and they thought they saw Jesus walking on the water towards them . . . they were afraid. They must have thought that the end was near! But Jesus told them not to be afraid. In fact he told them to have courage! He even asked Peter to walk toward him!
Satan places lots of “ghosts” in my life. Often when I feel that the Lord is leading me in a certain direction, I look around and see the ghosts. “Oh, it can’t be God asking me to do that.”, my brain will say. Or, if I do take a step of faith and begin to follow Christ, like Peter, I start looking around at all the scary waves and I begin to second guess myself. Luckily, Jesus is right there willing to put me back into the boat, but chastising me for not having enough faith.
I need constant reminders that God created me, and He created the ghosts. If He asks me to do something, then He also already has a plan for the ghosts. I need to just trust in Him, and take one step at a time.
And laugh at the ghosts!
