So this morning I was reading in my Bible and I came across something that I found pretty interesting. I’ve probably read this story countless times or at least heard it countless times but there was a certain part today that really hit me. In Mark 6:45 and following is the story of when Jesus walks on water. We’ve all heard this story before probably alot in fact about how we need to place our faith in Jesus. If you want to I’m sure you can think of all the little catchy church sayings we get from stories like this such as; “always keep your eyes on Jesus.” You know those overused church sayings we seem to hear all the time. But it was another part of this story that really hit me this morning. In verse 45 it says, “Jesus immediately made his disciples get into the boat..” Think about that for a second. I always run right over this part of the verse wanting to get to the good part where Jesus walks on water, but listen, he made them get into the boat knowing a storm was coming.
See I think alot of times when bad things happen we, meaning I, have a tendency to say…why God are you allowing this to happen to me. You know where I’m coming from. Its almost as if I forget that He’s in control and no matter what happens He has a plan. When you read on further down it says in verse 48, “that he saw the disciples” and it goes on to say that “about the 4th watch of the night he went out to see them, walking on the water.” See he was watching them, he didnt even go out to see them until the 4th watch of the night, which was the 3:00 am – 6:00am shift. He knew all along what was going on. Its almost like we sometimes see God as our knight in shining armor that comes to the scene to get the big bad evil things away from us and regain control and walk out on the water and calm the storms in our life down. Instead of thinking of God as the all knowing, all powerful, all everything God who told us to get in the boat in the first place. Its not that God isn’t the knight in shinning armor, its just that He’s so much more. God is in everything, good and bad and as tough as it is he has called us as his followers to trust in His perfect plan. So no matter how tough life is or no matter how hard you feel like your going to crash just remember that He’s watching and waiting and IN CONTROL.
Peace and Love,
The White-man
