---"COME~"

~~'Jesus said, "Come." Then Peter got out of the boat and was walking on the water toward Jesus.'
---(Matthew 14:29 / CEB)

--THEY'RE MY favorite socks: blue, gray, and black, with a little bit of writing on the bottom. They're warm, wooly, and I always search for them on each first cold day of the year. You can't really see the most significant thing about them unless I take off my shoes and show you the bottoms of my feet. But there, on each sock, is a bluish puddle labeled the Sea of Galilee. My friend Edward bought them for me on a trip to Israel, a fine souvenir.

"You gave them to me because I can walk on water?" I suggested.
"Because I thought you'd like them," he said.

I don't walk on water. Don't even come close. If Jesus asked me, as He asked Peter to step out of the boat and walk with Him on the Sea of Galilee, I would surely sink at the first step, faltering in my faith, not even hearing Him call out, "Be encouraged! It's me" (Matthew 14:27/ CEB). And yet I love having something on my feet to remind me, even so subtly, to walk in Jesus's footsteps. And I begin to think, "HalleluJAH"/ 'Praise the LORD.'

That cashier who was so rude to me, couldn't I have been a little nicer to her? That guy who cut me off as I tried to move into the right lane on the highway, did I really need to shout at him from behind the wheel of my car? That sympathy note I've been meaning to write, the get-well card... it's time to get to them tonight.

Most important, the fears that prevent me from trust, why not give them up? It's time to "Trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not unto my own understanding" [Proverbs 3:5 thru 6]

I'm wearing my favorite socks today," I tell Edward at the office.
"Glad you like them," he says. "Nice to feel like a disciple, with the Sea of Galilee at your feet."

----DAILY GUIDEPOSTS~~--"Hallelujah Here Below"/ Elevation Worship //<https://youtu.be/dtCdNfr_R6I>
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