While stopped at a red light yesterday, I saw this interesting message on the license plate in front of me:

IF YOU THINK YOU’RE PERFECT

TRY WALKING ON WATER

This immediately got me to thinking about Matthew 14:25-31. The Bible says that Jesus walked on water. Any Christian will tell you that Jesus was and is perfect. The connection makes sense, right? Who else could walk on water, beside him?

But there’s another man who walked on water: Peter. How’s that possible?

Jesus called Peter “thou of little faith”. Peter didn’t have much faith, but he had a little; and it carried him a little distance. When Jesus told him, “Come,” that faith let him walk on water… just like Jesus.

When did Peter sink? When he began to look around and consider the circumstances, he became afraid, and started to doubt.

Interesting. When Jesus said, “Come,” Peter was able to do the impossible through faith.

When Jesus bids us likewise, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect,” telling us to do something that only he could do…

Are we also able, like Peter, to do the impossible through faith in Christ? Will he enable us to be and to do as he commanded?

And did Jesus give us anything that would enable us to be perfect, as he and the Father are perfect?

Genesis 1:2b:

“And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

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By the way… it wasn’t inevitable for Peter to sink. All he had to do was continue in faith, as he began in faith.

And even when his faith wavered, and he began to sink, he had enough faith in Jesus to cry out, “Lord, save me.”

Whoever reads this: let me encourage you to keep the faith, nothing doubting. We only sink when we begin to doubt, considering what should and shouldn’t be possible for US and OUR ability. Let us instead look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; the one who bids us, “Come.”

And let us remember his words, how he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” (Luke 18:27)