I HAVE CONTROL OVER THIS STORM

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”