Opportunities to find out what God is calling us to be. There is an old saying among sailors. Safety is not what we are made for either. Not if we are followers of Christ. Faith is not about safety and success.
Faith is about risk.
Faith is about facing into the storms of life, so that God can teach us what we are made for. In fact, that is what the season we have just entered is all about. The forty days of Lent are taken directly from today's text. Lent is a time to re-examine our lives. To ask God to teach us who we are.