Yesterday was about what brave is not. (here it is) So what’s next?
“Do the thing afraid” has become my mantra. It’s something I whisper, mostly shout, to myself daily. At first I thought it was the decision and action of taking that first brave step. But for me it turns out that bravery doesn’t begin with a step, it starts by taking a knee.
Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
the flock under his care. Ps 95:6-7
To kneel means to bow one’s self. When I choose to kneel, I lay down all that I’m not and believe in all that He is. It’s not running away from the brave thing. It’s a surrender knowing I cannot even begin to take a first step without bowing, worshiping, taking my rightful place under His care. Then, and only then, am I ready to take the first brave step.
My prayer for you and me today…
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Glory to God in the church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes! Ephesians 3:14-21
Thank you for joining me on this journey to living bravely.
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