Calm the Storm

Picture, if you will, a boat. A fishing boat. A boat out on a lake, making its way to the other side. Thirteen men were in this boat; a good number of them were fishermen. All were awake. All but one. One slept on a cushion in the back of the boat. People around town called him “teacher.”

Now imagine, if you will, that a squall comes up. A squall so fierce that even the fishermen were fearful for their lives. These were not amateur fishermen—these were men who had grown up on fishing boats. They had weathered their share of squalls. These were hardened fishermen. Yet these hardened fishermen were fearful of their very lives in this storm. So what did they do? They woke the teacher.

Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? But it’s true. They went to the back of the boat, woke the teacher and said, in effect, “Can’t you see we’re dying out here, don’t you care?”

I ask you, what could this teacher possibly do that these seasoned fishermen couldn’t? Simple.

He stood.

He spoke.

The storm vanished.

When Jesus speaks, even the wind and the waves listen. Do you?