Don't miss the boat!

'Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him.' MATTHEW 8:23

There are moments, especially as a young person when you have to make life-changing choices. One day Jesus invited two people to join His team, but they both had their reasons for putting it off. One had a funeral to attend, another wanted to go home to explain his decision. That's the last we hear of them.

Matthew records, 'Then [Jesus] got into the boat and his disciples followed him.' They had missed the boat! You'll never get anywhere if you don't make decisions because you're scared or you can't decide or even because you can't be bothered.

In the 1870s two men worked really hard on the idea of transmitting sound down a wire. Amazingly on exactly the same day both Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray planned to go to the patent office to file their idea. Unfortunately for Elisha Gray, despite the fact that he had the idea first, he was busy and sent someone in his place who got there an hour after Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander took credit for the invention of the telephone, and got very rich, and Elisha Gray missed out.

If you get a God-given opportunity to do something, no matter how scary it is or how out of your depth you may feel, take it. Don't hang around, don't put it off, trust God and don't miss the boat!

written by Bob Gass