Safety Net
Definition: a safeguard against possible hardship or adversity.
Definition: a safeguard against possible hardship or adversity.
If you are like me – you create safety nets – sometimes without even realizing it. We stay in a relationship, a job, a routine, because we have become comfortable there- it feels safe there. I’ve talked to many people recently who are feeling that God is calling them to trust Him and only Him by letting go of those things that we have become tethered to. We are afraid of potential hardship or adversity if we let go. Yet, it is in those difficult times, if we are relying on God, we are growing more into the person He ordained us to be.
I truly believe that we are headed into “interesting” times and that to survive those times we need to learn to live without a net. To trust God completely for every aspect of our lives. That. Is. Scary. Holding on to something because we aren’t sure that God is going to come through, keeps us in complacency.
Now more than ever we must make ourselves available to the potter. Isaiah 64:8: “But now, O Lord, you are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our potter; and all of us are the work of Your hand.” Allow yourself to yield entirely to Him as that is the only way we can truly become all that we were meant to be. He is the master designer – why would we want to be less than what the plans called for?
Letting go of that net will force us to rely more on God and less on that safety we created for ourselves. It is imperative that we grow in a faith that is wholly dependent on Him. Honestly, we should be as children, in that they are dependent on their parent for all things. Children trust without doubt that their parent will not forsake them, will not lead them astray. We are His children.
Only you know if God is calling you to take a step in faith, to go beyond your comfort zone and really trust Him. God has a plan for our lives, yet sometimes we can get in His way. We either trust that He has what is best for us or we don’t. But as long as we are still holding on to that “something” we may not fully experience the “everything” that is ours through Him.
“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him, and He will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.” Psalm 37:4-6
