I’ll come with you

I read a story just now from someone I follow, and I wanted to share it with you.

He was at breakfast in London with a friend, one of those long, easy mornings where you lose track of time. Then he looked at the clock and realized he had an appointment across town and wasn’t going to make it. Traffic was bad. Every option he came up with had a problem. He just sat there running through them, looking for a good one that wasn’t there.

You know that feeling. A few bad options and no good one.

The old version of him would’ve just picked the least bad choice, stayed quiet, and carried the stress through the whole morning. Figured it out alone. I think a lot of us live there more than we’d like to admit.

But this time he turned to his friend and said, “Hey, I’m not sure what I should do here.”

Such a small sentence. But something opened just by saying it out loud.

His friend thought for a second and said, “Why don’t you take a bike?” And he laughed, because biking in London felt about as safe to him as jumping off a building. No thank you. He had his reasons.

And then his friend said the thing that changed it. “I’ll come with you.”

That was the moment the no turned into a yes. Not because the fear went away, but because he wasn’t being asked to do the scary thing alone anymore. So they got on the bikes. His whole body was tense for the first few minutes… and then they turned into the park, the noise dropped away, and he realized he was seeing a city he’d visited dozens of times from an angle he’d never once seen. It had been there the whole time. He’d just never come at it from this direction.

Here’s what I keep coming back to.

Fear shrinks the world down to the size of what we already know. Every “no, thank you” trims the map a little smaller, until we’re living in a room so small we forget there’s anywhere else to stand. And one yes opens it back up.

But the deepest part of the story isn’t the yes. It’s “I’ll come with you.” That’s what changed everything. He wasn’t braver. He just wasn’t alone.

And that’s exactly what Jesus offers. Not a map shouted from a distance. He comes with us. He’s the friend right beside you who makes the scary thing possible just by being in it with you. “Surely I am with you always,” He said (Matthew 28:20).

And He gives us each other too. There’s a line in Ecclesiastes I love: “A cord of three strands is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12). You, a friend willing to come with you, and God woven through the middle. That holds.

So much of what keeps us stuck isn’t the situation. It’s that we’re trying to do it alone, quietly, picking the least bad door. And the moment we tell the truth and let someone come with us, a door we couldn’t see before opens up.

This is what we’re building inside the Receive Academy. A place to stop doing it alone. To learn to hear God’s voice and receive what He’s already giving, with Jesus beside you and people who’ll say “I’ll come with you” when you’re standing in front of a hard door.

If you want a friend on the journey, just reply to this email, or come join us at receiveacademy.com

With you,

Tyson

p.s. - the guy in the story actually made it to his next appointment. Something he thought before was impossible. But when he spoke out the truth and was open to do something new (believe in a new way, act in a new way)… the door opened up.

p.s.s - the guys name is Kunal Gupta, just to give credit to him for the awesome story. I think this link will take you to his site - click here