Mark
4:35-41
35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let
us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind,
they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats
with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over
the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 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?”
39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet!
Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
40 He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you
still have no faith?”
41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even
the wind and the waves obey him!”
The greatest probed
question that has always lingered within
the Rolodex of my mind is how come Jesus
sits in a boat that he well knows is about to be accosted by a deadly storm and
he is not bothered.
Until I discovered why he was not bothered;
Jesus was not bothered of the coming of the storm because he
knew that he had power over the storm.
They are people who
often times than not look at you going by and by your days seemingly ordinary
without reckoning that even though you are shrouded in what looks like a
visible ordinary shell of a body………….
But you are not ordinary.
If I may put it aptly you are extra-ordinary.
One of the character straits of ordinary men is embedded in
their propensity to be reactionary rather than responsible every now and then
you are suddenly be faced by a storm, a situation, and a circumstance that is
life-threatening.
In the portion of the
scripture above, we see the reaction of the disciples as ordinary men;
conversely we see the response of Jesus as an extra ordinary man.
The disciples,
immediately after recognizing the threat of the storm, they begin to shake
Jesus out of his cool-laid, arguing, “Teacher do not you care if drown (and that
we are about to die.”)
While Jesus stands up
and commands the wind “be quiet and he said to the waves be still.
Every now and then ordinary men are being faced with a life –threatening
storm-situation, and circumstance.
The fear of eminent danger arises to the occasion among
ordinary men, whilst extra-ordinary men alight with faith in the face of
eminent danger, because they fully understand the power within their grasp and
the propensity of that power to reverse the threat and the storm against their
course and their destiny.
The threat is reversed and turned around by standing up to
it and speaking against it.
I speak to your storm by the power of God granted unto me
through my faith in Christ Jesus.
”Be quiet and be still”
