He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"
The twelve had left everything to follow Jesus. They knew there was a "God thing" going on. But they still hadn't fully understood who Jesus was. Or did they? They had seen miracle after miracle. They saw His compassion toward the hurting and broken. They heard His teaching and saw how His understand of the Law was far beyond the religious leaders'. Perhaps their terrified feelings were because they did relaize who this was that calmed the wind and the waves with His words.
It is a terrifying thing to realize one is in God's presence. To approach God in an unclean state or without going about it through the proper ceremony meant instant death. But these twelve had been invited into Jesus presence. He chose and called them. It's always a balancing act between having fear and being in awe of Holy God and having faith because He came and invited me to follow in spite of my failure and uncleanness.
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