Keeping Him in sight

Following Jesus is hard sometimes.

No kidding, right? If you've been trying to follow Him for any length of time I'm sure you're already aware of this! I was specifically thinking, though, about how it can be hard to follow Him with regards to the choices we have to make for our future and the paths we take in life. Sometimes we don't see His leading very clearly, or we are apprehensive or fearful about the path we know He wants us to take, or we don't enjoy the path He's leading us on, and so on.

The key is to follow Him anyways - to take the step that has been revealed, even if we have no idea where it will take us or what the next step after it will be. Maybe it doesn't seem like any step has been revealed right now; in that case, the key is to keep your eyes and your heart fixed on Him. Actually, that is the key to following Him at all! Our steps become uncertain when we take our eyes off of Him and look at the potential dangers around our path, like Peter did when he was walking on the waves to Jesus and began to listen to his fears. When we are following Him, however, we can continue in the fearlessness of assured trust.

"For a long way Aslan went along the top of the precipices. Then they came to a place where some little trees grew right on the edge. He turned and disappeared among them. Lucy held her breath, for it looked as if he had plunged over the cliff; but she was too busy keeping him in sight to stop and think about this... From behind her she heard the voices of the others shouting, 'Hi! Lucy! Look out, for goodness' sake. You're right on the edge of the gorge. Come back -' and then, a moment later, Edmund's voice saying, 'No, she's right. There is a way down.'" - C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian