Living the Good Life: Living Trusting

Continuing our "Living the Good Life" series, we learn from Matthew 14:22-32 that living the good life means we walk by faith, living trusting. When his disciples encounter an unexpected storm, Jesus walks to them on the water, and Peter at once expresses a desire for trust and has enough faith to join Jesus out even in the storm. Jesus encourages this faith by inviting him deeper into this trust, but as soon as Peter's focus drifts from Jesus to the danger, he starts to sink. Eyes on Jesus, he walks, but eyes off Jesus he stumbles. The same is true for us. Fear and doubt are the enemies of faith, while walking by faith mean trusting Jesus at all times. Having little faith prevents us from experiencing the joy God invites us into through trust, and the amount of our faith will determine our experience of God's power at work in our lives. The good life is not a life of little faith; it is a life of living trusting.