In Matthew 14: 28-30, we find the famous story of Peter
walking on water. Initially, as Christ called him out of the boat, he moved
forward in faith, and his faith in Jesus held him. But then he took his eyes
off Jesus and he looked at the storms around, at the wind and the waves, and he
began to question how walking on water was possible. It might have been pride
that made him fall, “Look at me guys, I’m walking on water!” or it might have
been doubt, “Oh no, what am I doing? I shouldn’t have gotten out of the boat.”
Whatever the case, at the moment he took his eyes off Jesus, he began to sink.
How often have we done the same? Jesus has taken us down a
road of faith. We've seen Him work in the past; we see Him working even now.
But then our eyes get distracted by the storms around us. The natural realm seems
too powerful to be overcome! Will we trust Him even then? Or will we sink into
discouragement and despair thinking, “It's too impossible, too difficult! I've
gone too far out on a limb. God can’t possibly over-rule this situation!”
“Are you tempted to give way to
feelings of anxious foreboding or utter despondency? In the darkest days, when
appearances seem most forbidding, fear not. Have faith in God. When in faith we
take hold of his strength, He will change, wonderfully change the most hopeless
discouraging outlook. He will do this for the glory of His name.”[i]
Oh that we would keep our eyes on Jesus, to the only one
that has power to still the waves and the sea. Oh that we would trust Him, even
in the midst of the storms. He is still there, and He's more powerful, far more powerful, than any storm we
will ever encounter in this life. But until our faith has walked through
storms, we don’t know Him to be true. Will we endure and hold on even when the
powers of the natural realm seem too powerful?
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