Friday, October 7, 2016

In all of the miracles that Jesus performed the one that strikes me the most is when He walked on water.  In the midst of a stormy sea Jesus approaches His disciples who had been struggling all day to navigate and row their boat in the middle of a terrible storm.  When His disciples see Him and He tells them its Him, Peter responds "Lord...bid me come unto thee on the water".  So Peter gets out of the ship and begins walking toward Jesus.  He does fine as long as He is looking at Jesus, but the moment he looks away, worrying about the storm he begins to sink.  This truly is like all of us.  As long as we're walking toward Christ with our gave unfailingly toward Him, we are safe. Yet the moment we begin to worry about what's going on around us, what people say or think, worrying to much about our problems, etc., that is the moment that we will begin to sink.  The words Jesus says to Peter cut to the core, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" -Matt 14:31.  Peter may have just walked on water but Jesus was not about to patronize Him and congratulate him.  Jesus always stretches people further.  He knows our potential and that we are capable of so much more.  Peter had a lot of faith in Christ yet he still had work on expanding that faith.  So like Peter, we all have faith, all at different levels, but we all need to keep working to increase that faith.  And as we do so, we just need to remember to always look to Jesus and He will pull us up out of the stormy sea.

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