Impossible Trust

When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.  Matthew 9:36 NET

Turning our thoughts to God also demonstrates our trust in Him. Even undesired things such as pain and problems can be reminders to communicate with God in prayer and worship. Focusing on Jesus’ Presence protects us from getting stuck on problems— like always going over and over them in our mind without making any progress, in fact stumbling backwards instead of leaping forward in faith, into the arms of God. 

And it blows me away that Jesus Christ is not a, one-dimension, messiah. He flipped tables. He walked on water. Our Lord felt great compassion, and that compassion motivated His sacrificial actions done in love. 

 How many times have you been given an opportunity but your focus quickly falls off Jesus? In our modern day and age we're more focused on what we want the way we want it. We want our desires in a fast, easy, and comfortable way.  We want whatever we are doing or whatever we own to make us happy. But that is not true joy. 

Most of us have no problem doing Jesus' work as long as it fits into our schedule and satisfies our surface need for emotional happiness ..... then we take our eyes of Jesus and become focused on the wind, the storm, and depth of the water and we forget our Savior has called us to do the impossible. 

With impossible trust, faith AND joy. Imagine if Peter kept his focus on Jesus the entire time. What other impossible things would he have been able to accomplish?