The Perfect Storm….
Mark 4:41
SàThe disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is the this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”
HàThese disciples are fisherman; they’ve seen plenty of storms at sea. They are not like me who gets sea sick with a few little waves. They live on the water. And as they are crossing the sea, a storm blows up on them and its one big storm. So big that they look to Jesus for help. If these seamen are looking to Jesus for help; you know it is one heck of a storm. Jesus gets up and silences the waves and wind. These men look at Him and they are terrified. If Jesus is greater then this storm; He is worthy of their fear. If they were afraid of the storm and Jesus is greater then the storm then they correctly look at each other as if to say, “what in the world have we gotten ourselves into?”
AàThe struggle is that even though we read a story like this and proclaim with our mouths that Jesus is greater then any storm and that we should take comfort in this, which is rightly so, once the storm is over or even within it we do not look at Jesus with the same awe as we do the storm. We look at Jesus as a way out. What if we looked at Jesus as a storm? What if we looked at Jesus as that perfect storm that can bring our lives to a place of peace beyond our comprehension? What if we looked at Jesus with the same fear and trembling as we do with the storms of our lives? What if we took Jesus as serious as we do the storms? What if we allowed Jesus to consume us the way we do the storms? I think we would experience a peace and closeness with God that nothing in this world could penetrate and destroy.
PàLord Jesus, thank you for your power and for being greater then my storms. Give me the grace to give you greater awe and respect then I do the storms of my life. Help me to see you not as a way out but as a storm that can consume my life and take me to places beyond my wildest dreams. Give me the courage and the fear to look at you with a trembling confidence that it is through your power and mercy that I will find peace. Amen.
EàJesus is one storm I don’t want to miss.
chadpullins@connect2crossroads.com
