35That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, "Let us go over to the other side." 36Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
39He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
40He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
41They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"-Mark 4:35-41 (NIV)
The thing that grips me about this passage is that I sound just like one of those disciples: "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
If any storm, no matter how small, hits me in life, I can be found asking God "don't you care?"
And while I haven't heard an audible voice, I have heard Jesus speak to my heart time and time again: "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" Will I ever learn?
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