What if the scary step is actually the safe one?

Hello, friend.

Can I ask you something a little upside down today?

What if the thing you’ve been putting off - the step that makes your stomach flip, the decision that feels too big, too risky, too much like leaping off a ledge - what if that is actually the safest place you could possibly go?

I know. It sounds backwards. We are wired to stay where it’s familiar, where we can see the edges, where we know what comes next. We stay in the boat.

But this week I’ve been sitting with two men who didn’t.

Peter, standing at the edge of a storm-tossed boat in the middle of the night, heard one word from Jesus - come - and climbed out. Abraham, centuries earlier, left home with no map, no destination, and no guarantee. Just the voice of God saying the same thing.

Here’s what both men discovered: the ground held.

Not because the journey was easy. Not because there were no storms. But because a step towards Jesus is always, always the right step.

John Henry Newman wrote those famous lines in 1833, stranded on a boat in the Mediterranean, ill and uncertain. “Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom.” He didn’t have a clear path. He just had a light to walk towards.

So do you.

Today’s one small Holy Step: name the thing you’ve been putting off. Write it down. Whisper it. Say it quietly to God on the school run or in a lunch break. You don’t have to do the whole thing today. Just name it - and ask: Is this you saying come?

Because if it is, the ground will hold.

I’ve just posted today’s full five-minute devotional on YouTube - it’s the one I’d point you to if you need a bit of courage today. You can watch it here:

See you tomorrow, Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/when-the-storm-wont-stop-and-what?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true