Trust Beyond Your Doubts

You are more than your fears, more than your doubts, more than your stumbles

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Transcript

The waves crashed against the boat, and the spray was stinging the disciples' faces. Through sheets of rain, they saw a figure approaching across the churning sea. It was Jesus, walking on water as if it were solid ground.

Peter, always the bold one, called out: "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water."

"Come," Jesus replied.

For a moment, Peter did the impossible. He stepped from wood onto waves, his feet finding purchase on liquid that should have swallowed him instantly. One step, then another. He was actually walking on water.

Then, doubt crept in. The moment his faith wavered, he began to sink.

"Lord, save me!" he cried.

Jesus reached out, catching him before the sea could claim him. "O you of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"

This parable captures something we all face. Moments when we step out onto our own stormy seas. A new business venture. A difficult conversation. A creative project that terrifies us. For a brief, glorious moment, we're doing the impossible.

Then self-doubt whispers. The inner critic awakens. We remember all the reasons we should sink.

But the Yogis understood something Peter learned that night. The Real Self, that divine spark within, cannot be diminished by outer circumstances. As the Bhagavad Gita teaches, it "cannot be pierced by weapons, burned by fire, wetted by water, nor dried by wind."

Deep confidence emerges when we touch the eternal within us, far beyond fleeting achievements or personality. When you remember, like Peter eventually did, that you are more than your fears, more than your doubts, more than your stumbles—that's when you can walk on water.

The storms will come. But you are not the storm. You are the infinite sky that watches it pass.