Do we even have enough faith to take that first step

You gotta love the apostle and servant of Jesus Christ, Simon Peter. His sins and errors are recorded in the scriptures and passed down through thousands of years for all to read. He is the example of all of us in his love of the Lord and yet in his weakness. He desired to come to Christ and walk with him on the sea of Galilee and yet he falter and begin to sink. Do we even have enough faith to take that first step upon the boisterous sea?

In his second general epistle he exhorts us to be diligent in following Christ and besides this he says we should “add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity.” (2 Peter 1: 5 – 7)

If we think of these things as rungs on a ladder then think, where am I on the ladder.  Some of us keep going up and sliding down. The important thing is that we keep climbing.