Put Your Feet in the Water

“But as soon as the feet of the priests who were carrying the Ark touched the water at the river’s edge, the water above that point began backing up a great distance away . . . And the water below that point flowed into the Dead Sea until the riverbed was dry. Then all the people crossed over near the town of Jericho.” Joshua 3:15b-16 (NLT) In 2015, I started attending a missionary training school in Missouri. The thought of going to another country intrigued me, and I wanted to learn in another setting. Things were going well, but I began to struggle with the linguistics courses, which I found out were not my strong point. The last semester was around the corner and I did not want to return for it. Yet I did not want to quit. I thought that if I returned home to Canada early, God is not going to love me any less. Yet I still wasn’t at peace. I continued to pray and wrestle with it. One day, while doing housework, this thought came so clear to me: “Just put your feet in the water and I will take care of the rest.” The story of Joshua leading the Israelites through the Jordan River came to mind, and I made the decision to return for the final semester. In that instant of saying “yes,” there was peace inside me! The final semester came and God sure “took care of the rest.” He is so faithful. Upon finishing, I received a Bachelor of Intercultural Studies degree. I learned a lot that semester, but one thing I will not forget is that when God calls you to a task, He will take care of it all — when we put our “feet in the water” — just like He took care of it for Joshua and the rest of the Israelites. — Myrna Kopf   Council Fire is a collaboration with Intertribal Life Ministries and Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The Council Fire Daily Devotional Book Set is available on the Intertribal Life Ministries website. Learn more about Council Fire at councilfire365.org