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Faith Is Walking on Water

Sadhu Claims He Will Walk on Water" declared the headline of a Bombay newspaper. I
read the announcement and followed subsequent reports with considerable interest. A
Hindu holy man had set a date when he would publicly walk across the surface of a tank
of water.

When the day for the miracle arrived a crowd such as only India can mass pressed to the
site. The holy man came with a group of his closest followers, and mounted the platform
beside the tank. After a few brief preliminaries, he stepped confidently onto the fluid

surface.

At that point we draw a kindly veil over the sadhu's embarrassment, by simply reporting

that he was not the second human being to walk on water.

Now, having implied that only one other person besides Christ has ever accomplished this
feat, referring, of course, to the apostle Peter, I aver that it is absolutely necessary that
every Christian walk on water. For, I suggest:

Faith is walking on water.

Faith is walking on water all the time.

A strange definition? Let me explain.

Every Bible reader is familiar with the story recorded in Matthew 14. Jesus and His
disciples had been on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, where the Lord had fed
5,000 people. Afterward He sent His disciples back across the lake while He stayed
behind.

Darkness came on, and a wild storm arose. Throughout the night the disciples, in their
boat, wrestled against the waves and the wind. In the gray, ghostly half-light of dawn they
saw what they thought was a spirit gliding over the wind-whipped waters toward them.

Bone weariness and loss of sleep intensified their reaction. Primeval terror gripped them,
and they cried out in fear.

Then came a calm, reassuring voice, "It is I!"

Electrified, Peter exclaimed, "Master, if it is really You, tell me to come to You on the

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