Have you ever been to a circus? I’ve only been to a few in my life. It is absolutely amazing the acrobatic stunts these circus performers attempt and succeed at and the faith and trust they exhibit. Like the trapeze artist who swings out holding on to the trapeze bar and then lets go in order to grab hold of another trapeze bar that swings and then back to the other side again. At one point during this exchange, they’re not holding on to any bar. The body and life are suspended in mid air for a split second. Have you ever felt like that in life? You feel like you are 180 feet above the ground with no net below and you are holding on to nothing.
God gives you a dream and the next step He wants you take. God is challenging you to do something about the dream He has deposited in you. Yet nothing is going to happen to that dream until you step out and put it into action. Just like that trapeze artist, you have to say, “I am going to go for it!” For every ten dreamers in the world, there is only one decision maker. A lot of people have dreams, and yet, they never get to step two – making the decision to trust God.
Faith is a verb. It is active not passive. It is something you do. Taking that step of faith requires two things: (1) You decide to lay it all on the line by saying, “God, you told me to do this, and I’m going to be faithful and do it.” (2) You cannot move forward in faith while holding onto the past. If you want to walk on water, you’ve got to get out of the boat.
Like that trapeze artist, if you don’t let go and grab the vision God wants you to have, you’ll swing back. And what I’ve discovered is that when you swing back, you don’t swing back to the same platform, but to one lower. You see, God brings you to a point of decision, and your faith will build as you swing toward the dream God has given you.
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