It is interesting to me that while you might really wish to see a miracle sign first before you make your moves, sometimes it looks like you have to jump first and with a mindset of “if I perish, I perish”, brave words attributed to the biblical character Queen Esther.
Here is the interesting part: I have observed that it is people who declare that “if I perish, I perish” that actually survives. When we take that leap and choose to have some faith and not give in to that fear that overwhelms us, it is amazing to see how far we just might go, we will not perish. It is that voice in our head that wants to slow us down.
What is perhaps more interesting is this part: if you do not take the leap, you are still going to perish anyway. If Queen Esther did not take that leap, she would still have been executed along with the Jews (save the arguments, how long before Haman will dig up her family tree and expose her too?). If those lepers never took the leap of going to the enemy camp, everyone would have starved to death anyway (2 Kings 7:3-10).
As that quote goes: “you miss 100% of the shots you do not take”.
We will not perish. It is that voice in our head that wants to slow us down.
We will not perish. But we have to be willing to take that leap.
Welcome to November, will you leap this month?
