Many years ago I probably would have said waterwalking level faith was tied to results and the evidence of an outcome. But what I have learned is that the life of a WATERWALKER can be summed up best as:
Faith, not in the outcome that everything will work itself out. But rather, faith in the One who created the waters for me to walk on... no matter the outcome.
For many of us, faith is abstract—something we believe strongly, but when required to live it out, we shrink back and take our seats in the boat where we feel safe from the storms and chaos of this life. For others, faith is tangible, palpable. For those of us for whom faith is tangible, it drives us to action. We follow after the One who went before us, but who is also calling back to us to join Him on the water.
Long before Waterwalker Co. became a label on clothing, it was a name whispered to me in a moment of obedience—an invitation to step out of the safety of everything I knew and into the realm of possibilities that can only exist when YHWH is present.
In the early 2000s, a move across the globe shredded my understanding of who I was and what I was called to. The language was unfamiliar. The only thing I could see was each step in front of me as the Lord revealed it. It required the complete abandonment of every security I had ever known: no fallback, no savings, no protection, no community, no familiar safety—and lots of persecution, not from the communist government I was living in, but from the very faith community I had entered the country with.
In that space, my “faith” was exposed for the false refuge it was. I couldn’t explain away the questions or the discomfort. But in tearing down the false refuge of “religious piety” and rebuilding my faith from the ground up by walking through Scripture alone with Holy Spirit, I met Yeshua on the water. The waves were difficult, but so long as my focus remained on Him, I began to see what it meant to live out a life of true Waterwalking Faith.
To live a life abandoned to the presence of the Spirit of YHWH, embracing the invitation to join Yeshua on the water, eyes entirely focused on Him even when the waves are crashing.
When the chaos of life is overwhelming—I leave every false refuge behind and run to YHWH Machsi u’Metsudati, My Refuge & My Fortress.
During that time of rebuilding, it became clear—then and now—that YHWH will not tolerate any boat of false refuge. Right when I think I am secure—and even now, every time I get “comfortable” in the space I am in—He invites me back out of the false refuge of safety I have built and onto the water, where the only true safety exists for me.
He asks me the same question every time: “DO YOU TRUST ME??”
To which I answer, “Of course, Lord, you know I do!”
And then He reveals yet another false refuge I haven’t left behind.
Even today, as I type this, He reveals more that I have held tightly to—both feet on the water, but my hand grasping a rope still hanging from the boat. Do I trust Him truly? No matter the outcome? Even if my business fails, do I trust Him? Even if my health fails, do I trust Him?
And so, the question at the heart of Waterwalker Co.: Will you join Yeshua on the water—even when He is the only safety in the midst of raging waves? Will you leave the boat when the outcome is uncertain, unknown?
