You Boat Will Not Sink And The Storm Will Not Last Forever! “Jesus said to them, ‘Why are you afraid?’” Mark 4:40 Is that not a strange question to ask men who were in danger of losing their lives? Just a moment earlier they were tossing about in a boat which was filling rapidly with water, in the midst of a raging storm, with no hope of help. Why shouldnt they be afraid? Yet Jesus asked them, Why are you afraid? And then he put his finger on the reason: Have you no faith? Mark 4:40 This is why people become afraid -- because they lose faith. Faith is the answer to fear. This is the first lesson which comes to us out of this incident. Faith is always the answer to our fears, regardless of what they are. Jesus put his finger right on it: Have you no faith? Evidently they did not. They had forgotten all the things he said to them in the Sermon on the Mount about the extent of Gods care for them: You are much more valuable than flowers and birds. God cares for them; will he not much more care for you, O ye of little faith? Matthew 6:3. Here he was in the boat with them; their fate would be his fate; and yet they had forgotten this. How would these men have acted, do you think, if they had had faith? Suppose their faith had been strong -- their faith in him and in Gods care and love -- what would they have done? One thing is certain: they would not have wakened him; they would have let him rest. He was weary and tired, and needed the rest badly. They would have done so because their faith would have reminded them of two great facts: One, the boat will not sink; it cannot sink when the Master of ocean and earth and sky is in it. And the second is this: “The storm will not last forever!” The significance of this event to us is that faith is the answer to fear -- faith in the goodness and care of God in our lives, faith that he loves us and he is able to work in our midst. This is the way the Lord works in our lives today. He allows tests our faith all the time, in order that we might grow. And if our faith is strong enough we will see that he can handle the problem, that He knows how. But even if our faith is weak, He still will not let us collapse utterly. He will hold us up and see us through and, somehow in the process, lay the foundation of a new glimpse of his might and power which will enable our faith to grow stronger for the next time. Always remember… “Your boat will not sink and the storm will not last forever!” - Lynwood
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 03:11:16 +0000
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