Great Faith

I'm thinking about Jesus and the disciples in the boat today...

"Jesus then entered the boat that his disciples had prepared and began to travel to the other side of the lake. They left the crowd on the shore.

As the boat sailed off toward the other shore, Jesus fell asleep in the boat.

While Jesus slept a great windstorm came up on the lake. The waves began to beat against the boat and fill it up with water.

The disciples became afraid, to the point of thinking they would be lost in the storm. But Jesus lay asleep at the back of the boat.

The disciples came to Jesus and woke him, saying:

Lord, we are perishing! And Jesus stood up and rebuked the wind and the sea and the raging water.

He said to the sea: Peace, be still.

The storm ceased and there was a great calm.

Jesus said to his disciples:

Why are you so fearful? Don’t you have faith yet? Oh you of little faith.

The disciples, still afraid, began to marvel, saying to one another:

Who is this man that even the wind and the seas obey him? "

 

I think about this being me when we go through the storms of life and how many time I tend to be the one with little faith, wondering if God can really do it. The answer is the He can, but no matter how many years I have been walking with him I tend to do the same thing the disciples did even after they had spent so much time with him. They saw his character, his unordinary love, and his miracles, yet still had some doubt in their heart when some new obstacle came up. I think about what great faith would have said..."Christ is among us in this boat. Wind and waves In Jesus name be still. We will not be afraid because the Almighty God is with us." Sometimes we may wonder why God is delaying in rescuing us from the trial, but our faith can't grow without being tested and tried. It's like exercising. We can't become stronger if we don't lift a weight that we don't currently think we can do. Little by little, and uncomfortably at first, with continued work, we become stronger and able to endure more weight. I pray that any doubt becomes less and less, and Great faith overtakes it all. But is is through testing that this can happen. When those storms do come, may we say "The almighty God is with us. WE WILL NOT FEAR."