The storm was violent, the waves were hitting against their boat almost at the point of sinking the boat. The disciples terrified did what they knew best how to do. They panicked.
They were in the boat with Jesus. Jesus knew there was going to be a storm but He instructed them to go along to the other side of the town. He took them right into the storm. And now he lay asleep, totally relaxed, in the middle of the furious storm.
Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” (Mark 4:38) They cried out to Jesus to rescue them from the storm.
We like the disciples are often neck deep in a storm. We too feel Jesus is asleep whilst we drown. Jesus took the disciples on that trip knowing that there was storm coming. He knows the storm you are in and He has a plan to turn that Storm into a Testimony. After the simple words of Jesus that quieted the storm: “Quiet! Be still!” the disciples were in shock: "They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!” (Mark 4:41).
Jesus uses the storms in your life to bring glory to his name and to perform miracles. “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. (John 9:3) The blindness from birth that was upon the man in this account of John 9, was to bring glory to God's name. In a similar manner Jesus took the disciples right into the storm to glorify himself through that storm.
We have to exercise faith that the storms are for a reason and that Jesus will calm all our storms.
The winds and the waves shall obey thy will:
Peace, be still.
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea
Or demons or men or whatever it be,
No waters can swallow the ship where lies
The Master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey thy will:
Peace, be still; peace, be still.
They all shall sweetly obey thy will:
Peace, peace, be still.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, I commit my life in your hands. Help me Lord to trust you in my storms. Come and quiet them all down.
And unto Him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we could ever ask or think, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Amen!
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