Get your feet wet

August 12, 2010- This weekend is the last message in our series called, "God Talk". It has been an awesome time of seeing our relation with God through conversation. Many people have come to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. That alone makes everything we do worth it. Next week we begin a series called, "Mixology". I'm really excited about what God is going to do in this series. We are going to discuss the misconceptions that cause us miss out on all God has for us, simply because we don't have the correct view of theology. Hence "MIXOLOGY". Now some of these talks will not be based on theological stances that are so grey and controversial, but more along the lines of things that cause us to miss the most God has for us. Here's one example. Many of us view faith as a waiting game. If I have faith for something, then I need to just wait, and wait, and wait some more. But that is a misconception. How would you act if your waiter in a restaurant just stood there, not doing anything. Would that do you justice? That is how I view waiting on the Lord. When the children of Israel were going to cross the Jordan river, God gave instruction to Joshua to tell the priest.

" And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses. Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.' "

Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God. This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites. See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD -the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap."

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing."

Did you see that? The water stopped flowing after the priests stepped into the river. They didn't wait until the water stopped to walk, they stepped in. Many times God is just looking for someone who isn't afraid to get their feet wet. So what are you WAITING for. Get your feet wet!