Go Ahead - Jump!November 06, 2004 Author: Rev. Kip B. Banks, Sr. "Though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again." (Proverbs 24:14)
One day a young guy sat on a park bench watching a squirrel in a tree. It was aiming for a limb so far above it, that it looked like "a leap of suicide." Suddenly it jumped, missed, and landed on a branch several feet lower down. Immediately, it steadied itself up, and got ready to jump again. An old guy sitting on the same bench said to him, "Funny, I've seen hundreds of 'em jump like that, even with dogs barking at them from the ground. And a lot of them miss. But I've never seen one get hurt tryin'." Then he added. "I guess they must think it's better to take a risk, than spend your whole life, where you don't want to be." What are you aiming for? Does it seem out of your reach? Do you have less nerve than a squirrel? Go ahead, use your faith, take the leap; God will catch you if you fall! Otherwise, where you are today, is as far as you're ever going to get. Look at Moses: an interrupted childhood, a foster family, a violent temper, a stammering tongue, and a criminal record. What a resume! He could have given up before he even started! Yet God used him to lead the greatest migration of people in the history of the world. And Peter: sinks trying to walk on water, and denies his Lord, yet he becomes head of the New Testament Church. Failing does not make you a failure, quitting does. Get up and try again. Next time, with God's help, you'll make it! East Washington Heights Baptist Church |