Today's Reading: Matthew 14:22-32 *click here*
I remember when I was maybe around 14 there was a man who was a security guard at a skating rink that I frequented on the weekends. He told me something that has stuck with me ever since. This man who didn't have to say anything to a girl who had just been bullied by some of the mean girls who were there that night. A man who didn't have to talk to some socially awkward teen who had nothing to give him back. But that's a devo for another day.
I pass this onto my Middle School girls during several lessons. I even pass this onto adults who are struggling with gossip situations. He explained to me that ducks have oils in their feathers that allow the water to roll off their backs without sticking to them and weighing them down while they're swimming. He then looked at me and said "So Vanessa, let it roll off your back." How many of us let every word, every look, every whisper stick to us until we are so weighted down that we begin to sink? Remember that the enemy wants nothing more than to do just that, make us sink. But God doesn't just want us to glide through the water safely and confidently, He wants more than that for us. "Come" he told Peter (Matthew 14:29) he wants us to walk on the water with Him.
So friends, let it roll off you back, reach out your hand and set your sights on Him. Don't look around at the things that may get you, the things you are afraid of because that is when, like Peter, you will sink.
