Titanic

Most of us liked 'Titanic', the movie. I liked parts of it too. My favorite part was where the hero takes the heroine to the nose of the ship and asks her to do something she had never done before. He asks her to stand right at the tip and spread her arms. She hesitates at first, but eventually gives in. At that point, she realizes what she had been missing all this time. She experiences something that she never knew existed. That leap of faith transforms her and gives her the strength she never knew she had.

The scriptures say that God gave a wooden stick to Moses. God told him to use it in the time of need. Moses did not know how to use it or when to use it, but he took it. When he got back to the town, the Pharoah ordered his sorcerers to beat Moses in what they thought was magic. When the sorcerers threw their snakes in front of Moses, God told moses to throw his wooden stick. He hesitated at first, but then God said, "Fear not." Moses threw the wooden stick in front of the snakes and it turned into a python that ate up other snakes. The sorcerers immediately accepted Moses as the true prophet. They didn't do it because their snakes got eaten by Moses' python, but they saw how scared Moses himself was at his own miracle.

There comes a time in our lives when we have to take a leap of faith, when we are at the crossroads and we are uncertain. Maybe it is the beginning of a new journey. Maybe it will reveal to us a power that we never knew we had.

A great achievement is not when you surprise others. It is when you surprise yourself.