Risk

Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present. Author: J.I. Packer

Faith and Risk seem to go hand in hand don't they? The bible is filled with stories of ordinary people who took great risks, people who stepped out in faith into the unknown. The book of Hebrews is filled with accounts of those who believed God and took great risks.

Can you imagine fleeing across the desert with Moses, hearing the pounding hoof beats of the Pharaoh's horses coming towards you, and then looking forward, only to see a vast body of water blocking your escape? The future must have appeared pretty bleak to them, but still they ran forward in hope, a hope that lived in tension with their fear. A hope and faith that the God who called them, could do the impossible.

Hebrews 11:29  By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.