Matthew 8 Continued
Jesus Calms a Storm
The
disciples encounter a terrifying storm and when they show their fear,
Jesus rebukes them.
What
gives? Did Jesus really expect them to hunker down and fearlessly
push through? Not really.
What Jesus wanted His followers to do was
have more faith in Him than the storm they were dealing with.
Verse
24 tells us: “the boat was being swamped by the waves.” So here
you have an unruly sea that's beating upon a boat of men, some who
were fishermen! So they'd seen their a couple of squalls before this.
This had to be some storm!
Just
when they'd figured the worse was behind them, there came another
wall of water, threatening to break their boat in two, but notice in
the midst of the chaos, they sought Jesus, and even though they may
not have completely bought into the whole God incarnate thing, He
mercifully spared their lives.
We
serve a God unshaken by storms.
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