Take the First Step

Okay, so you're discovering what you're passionate about. You've taken time with the Lord, time alone and unplugged, to search your own heart, and you're discovering that thing that gives you goose bumps of excitement just thinking about it.

Don't worry that it's bigger than you and is totally impossible. God always calls us to something we can't do without Him. It's bigger than us because it's something God wants to do. But He won't just do it – He'll wait for us because He's totally into partnership.

In Song of Songs 2:8, the Beloved (us) says of her Lover (Jesus), “Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.” (NIV) He's leaping over mountains, doing the miraculous, and He's coming to invite us to join Him!

He says in verse 14, “My dove in the cleft of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.” (NIV) He's seeking us out, calling us to join Him where He lives, leaping across mountains in the miraculous. But we're hiding in the cleft of the rocks. Out of fear. Out of not knowing who we really are to Him. Out of intimidation from the Enemy. From the hurts of this life that have got us stuck in the rat race.

Look in verse 15 at what He says about the impossible obstacles we see that stand between us and our passion He's calling us into: “Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.” (NIV) What seem like impossible obstacles to us are just little clever foxes to Him. And He's got a plan to trap them, and that plan is on your heart right now. It's called The First Step.

You're passionate about that thing because He put that passion for it in you. Play a game with me for a moment. If you were to move in that direction, what would the first step be? Yeah, I know, it's totally unrealistic, but just for the sake of argument, suppose you did. What would that first step be?

Take it. Don't be afraid, stop thinking yourself out of it, just take it. Take the first step. Bag yourself a fox today. He'll love it, He's there waiting to help you – and you'll love it to.