Bible Journaling

The Risk Takers December 11, 2023

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to own one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.” - Maxwell Maltz

Have you noticed that life is a risky business? Most of the things you’ve ever done or ever will do require a bit of a gamble. You have to set a course and then risk the outcome. You change your hair color and take a chance that others will like what you’ve done, or even that you’ll like what you’ve done. You move to a new city and hope that you’ll settle in confidently, that you’ll favorite restaurants, the right church and make good friends.

Risk! It’s simply part of living. The one absolute, the one unchanging, never-ending, no-holds-barred part of life is Jesus. You have no risk there… everything to win, nothing to lose.

It’s good to be a risk taker sometimes, though. Risk involves courage and thinking something through so you can obtain the best possible outcome. Risk involves letting yourself be vulnerable and exposing your dreams to others. God gave you the ability to dream and to act on those dreams. Take a risk today.

“Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.” Ecclesiastes 11:1 NKJV

Let us pray: Lord, thank You for seeing we we need and helping to inspire my direction. Give us the courage to go after my dreams and be willing to take a positive risk for the right reasons. Father God, hear our prayers of intentions from today, from our prayer wall and for any unmentioned prayers in our hearts.. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

(Today’s devotional comes from”You are Blessed: 366 Devotions written by Karen Moore) Published by Christian Art Publishers