•Jesus always calls us into a future that's beyond our control and is rarely safe.

•Jesus invites us out of comfort to produce a faith dependent on Him alone; nothing more, nothing less and nothing else.

•The same Jesus that calls us out of the boat is the same Jesus that saves us from sinking.

Some people say, “God will never ask me to do something I can’t do.” I have come to the place in my life that, if the assignment I sense God is giving me is something that I know I can handle, I know it is probably not from God. The kind of assignments God gives in the Bible are always God-sized. They are always beyond what people can do, because He wants to demonstrate His nature, His strength, His provision, and His kindness to His people and to a watching world. This is the only way the world will come to know Him.

- John Ortberg,

If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”