Luke 8:25– “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”
The gulf coast is bracing for yet another hurricane.
Disturbances such as tornadoes, tsunamis, and tropical depressions are in weather reports every day.
Heavy rainfall, hailstorms, blizzards—each are experienced somewhere in our world every hour.
Meteorologists track them.
Newscasters report them.
Citizens try to prepare for them.
But, none of us can change the weather.
That’s why the stories of Jesus calming the storms in the Bible are so miraculous. All of nature, including catastrophic occurrences, recognize and obey, His voice.
Just as the disciples cried out to Jesus for help when they were on tempest-driven waves, we can ask Him to calm the physical seas and/or the “storms” in our lives.
The verse in Luke reminds us that if we have faith, we can take concerns of every kind to Him in prayer and trust Him to answer in accordance with His sovereign will.
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