Good Morning All,
Mark 4:41; “They were
terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey
him!”
I remember a conversation that I had with
a friend. He was hiking through the
woods in the Black Hills Forest. He was
following a path when he came upon a nest of baby rattlesnakes. He was afraid of what might be. Not knowing if momma rattler was around, he
gave the spot a wide berth. The problem
that occurred was that when he returned to the path; it was the wrong
path. Soon he was very lost, and it was
getting very dark. He was now
terrified. Not sure what to do, he
climbed one more hill and saw a highway.
He went to the highway and waited for a ride back to his car. He was a long way from where he wanted to be
but eventually, he made it home.
Our verse comes from the story of Jesus
calming the storm. As Jesus slept in the
back of the boat, a storm raged. While
it raged, the disciples were afraid.
These were experienced professional fishermen; they knew this lake like
they knew the back of their hand. This
storm frightened them. They may have had
thoughts of going missing until broken parts of the ship washed up and maybe a
couple of the bodies were recovered.
They were so frightened that they finally got brave enough to wake
Jesus. He rose up and rebuked the wind
and the waves the way a mother rebukes her young rambunctious children.
The disciples looked at each other and now
they were terrified! They had never
witnessed anything like this in their life.
They had just watched Jesus still the wind and the wave with just his
spoken word. This was totally beyond
their understanding or even imagination and they were terrified. They were terrified because this was an
entirely new experience.
Does the thought of this unimaginable power
frighten you? The power to create
everything with the spoken word, the power to stop the sun in the sky, the
power to shake mountains, the power to overcome death, all things that might
terrify us. It should terrify you, for
you are a sinner. Yet in what is the
most amazing twist in human history, we can take comfort in this fact.
Jesus showed his love for you by his death
and resurrection and now all that power is directed to giving us life. All of the chaos that makes up our lives, all
of the havoc-bringing storms in our lives are subject to his power. All of the trials in our life are under his
power. We have nothing to fear but God
Himself and he has promised to love you and to never let you out of his loving
embrace. Our Savior, our Redeemer is not
a powerless wimp. He is not helpless, or
absent or uncaring. Regardless of what
we feel; Jesus is in control of our out-of-control life.
Gracious Lord, you speak,
and the wind and the waves obey you. We
know that you are in control of our life as well. Give us the peace that comes from trusting in
your amazing love. In your precious name
we pray, amen.
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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