One Step At A Time

One step at a time. That’s all He asks of us.

Truth be told, I feel like I take three steps forward and two steps back; but His grace catches me every time I fall. I can look back and see how He’s brought me along to where I am, and all He did was ask me to take one step at a time. It looked scary when He asked me to do it. The step looked so high and the territory was so unfamiliar and uncomfortable; but as look back, all I can say is, “What was my problem? Why was I so reluctant to follow His leading?”

Then there are times when I look ahead and can see what’s coming and begin to understand why God has brought me to where I am – and that is usually to prepare me for whatever he has in store for me next. God never gives me something to do without, in some way, first preparing me for it. Yes, He gives me more than I can handle; but He does it to make me turn to Him for strength and grace. If I could do life on my own, why would I need Him?

As much as I feel I should have learned these lessons 100 times over, I can’t say that I have; most days, I feel like the Israelites who constantly forgot the things God did for them. God does amazing things in my life and in the lives of the people around me, but I am so quick to forget. I get stuck in things of this world and take my attention off my Creator, then consequently forget that nothing is outside of His perfect plan. When I get stressed because I’ve forgotten that He can take care of me, I am acting like I’m in control; that is pride, and it is not the life He intended me to live. Faith in Him is believing that He sees and cares for the world as He sees fit, and that His grace is greater than all our sin.