Young or old, the answer is still take a step

​Have you ever watched a toddler learn to walk? There's almost always an outstretched hand on the other side of the room he stumbles toward.

Such little hesitation in a child's first steps.

Bravery.

She sees who she's going toward. She knows the safety and security and encouragement to be found there. And so she goes.

Determined.

So many of us are still learning to walk:

Walk into that relationship.

Walk into that job opportunity.

Walk into that conversation that needs to be had.

Walk OUT of the habits or situations that are holding us back.

But unlike the toddler, we hesitate. No longer brave.

Maybe we no longer see the outreached hand on the other side of the room? Maybe we don't feel the safety and security and encouragement that's waiting for us there?

Maybe we don't here the voice:

"For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

A child longs to get where a child longs to be. So the child takes a step.

Where do you long to be that you're not getting to?

What steps are you hesitating to take?

If you are waiting to see the hand stretched out to your inner-toddler, that hand is not coming. But nonetheless, a hand is stretched out.

A hand begging you to discover why you learned to walk in the first place: to forever know the power of a step.

Have we forgotten that power? If so, there's no better day than today to remember it.

Go ahead and take a step where you are today and discover what God will do over there. Because God is indeed over there.

I see his hand.

It is stretching out.