Take a Risk for God

“But Jesus immediately said to them: ‘Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.’  ‘Lord, if it’s you,’ Peter replied, ‘tell me to come to you on the water.’  ‘Come,’ he said.” – Matthew 14:27-29 I would like to encourage you today to take a risk for God. As a child, I lived in San Juan Capistrano, a small town near the ocean in Southern Orange County. I could ride my bike to a beach very close to our house called Salt Creek, which is a famous surf beach, and many of my friends surfed there. Finally, the day had come for me to learn how to surf. Until then, I had only done boogie boarding and skim boarding, which is where you ride when there’s an inch of water on the sand.  After renting a little board for me, my father and I went out to the water, and