“Launch out into the deep” (Luke v. 4).
Many difficulties and perplexities in connection with our Christian life
might be best settled by a simple and bold decision of our will to go
forward with the light we have and leave the speculations and theories
that we cannot decide for further settlement. What we need is to act, and
to act with the best light we have, and as we step out into the present
duty and full obedience, many things will be made plain which it is no use
waiting to decide.
Beloved, cut the Gordian knot, like Alexander, with the sword of decision.
Launch out into the deep with a bold plunge, and Christ will settle for
you all the questions that you are now debating, and more probably show
you their insignificance, and let you see that the only way to settle them
is to overleap them. They are Satan’s petty snares to waste your time and
keep you halting when you should be marching on.
The mercy of God is an ocean divine,
A boundless and fathomless flood;
Launch out in the deep, cut away the shore line,
And be lost in the fulness of God.