sudden this storm creeps up on you and your little boat is getting tossed around like a rubber ducky in a bathtub. You look to your leader and what is he doing? Sleeping. I don’t know about you, but I think I’d be a bit frightened. So, one of your fellow… and very brave… disciples wakes up Jesus and says, “Um Teacher, do you not care if we drown?” Jesus gets up, rebukes the wind and says to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind dies down and everything is completely calm. In the Old Testament, raging waters were a symbol for chaos and ominous power. In Psalm 89 the Psalmist confirms that God rules over the sea and that when the waves mount up (or present danger and chaos) God stills them. What is it that most of us do in the face of chaos in our lives? I will venture to guess that we try to fix the problem all by ourselves. Sure maybe we can manage for a while, but ultimately it doesn’t fix anything. When the disciples were facing the raging waters of that sea, did they try to navigate on their own and just let Jesus sleep? No! The immediate response was to wake Jesus up and say, “Help us, Teacher! Do you not care if we drown?” Now, Jesus responded by calming the storm, yet then he said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” Let’s look at this for a minute: disciples had little faith, yet Jesus still calmed the storm. The disciples had little faith, yet Jesus still calmed the storm. I am not suggesting that we should settle for having little faith, but it sure is comforting to know that even when our faith isn’t up to speed with the Lord, He still calms the storms. As we stated in our call to worship from Psalm 9; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted. Okay, so maybe you’re thinking: Sure, the Lord calms the storms of life… then how come it seems like He’s sleeping durin...
