You know how when you were a little kid, you would get up on the kitchen counter and suddenly you were ready to get down? You would call for your dad or mom to come get you down. Sometimes, my dad would stand a little distance away and tell me to jump. I would say "No daddy, I don't want to!"......and he would respond, "Come on...I'll catch you." I would have butterflies in my tummy and I would keep saying I didn't want to. But my dad assured me that he would catch me and that I just had to trust him. And what do you know, every time I jumped into his arms.....he caught me. Never once did he miss. I think of all the possible things that could have happened. He could have told me to jump and as soon as I did, a glass could have fallen across the room that would take his attention off of me. Or my friend could have come into the room suddenly and startled him and he could have dropped me.
Have you ever trusted someone with everything you had? Trusted them when they said, "Go ahead...jump...I've got you." And then you give in to your fears and you have faith that they will catch you when you fall into them. Then suddenly, the proverbial glass breaks, or someone walks into their life and captures their attention, and for a moment...their eyes move away from you, and they drop you; they let you down.
Most of us have put our faith at one time or another into a person who is only human. They have good intentions, they really mean it when they say, "Jump...I'll catch you. You can trust me."......But life happens. People let you down. And to be honest, we let people down too. All the time.
The thing to remember is this: Keep on trusting, because that's what makes life interesting. Keep on having faith in people, because they deserve the chance to try. Learn from your mistakes, learn to approach circumstances with caution. And remember the One who will always catch you if you let Him. He will never get distracted by other people or other situations. When God says, "Go ahead, jump...I'll catch you.".....You can take Him at His word. He will never, ever look away or let you fall.
And sometimes...you have to jump with your eyes closed and with huge butterflies inside of you....but it's worth the jump, to be able to land each and every time into the arms of the God who actually knows how many hairs are on your head! So, go ahead.....jump!
