Time with Jesus: Luke 8:22-25
A Series on the Life of Christ According to Luke
When we walk with Jesus we will sometimes face scary and overwhelming situations. Sometimes those situations will be of our own making, but often they will be the result of living in a fallen world. The storms of life are deeply scary affairs. You must understand that the disciples are not being ridiculous here. The way the wind comes down into the Sea of Galilee (or Lake of Genneserit) can whip up quite a squall. I don’t know if you’ve ever been on a bass boat in the middle of a thunderstorm but I have—it is no joke.
What makes this situation seem silly is that Jesus is in the boat with them. Jesus who was the Word spoken in Creation through whom all things were made is in the boat with them. He is woken and stands and speaks and the storm obeys him. It would be easy to think that we, in the same position, would have been unworried because we know his power. When we walk with Jesus he is always in the boat with us. In fact, in Hebrews when it says he’s “familiar with our weakness” we could easily translate that colloquially as “he’s in the same boat.” So why do we fear the storms? For the same reason the disciples did—we struggle to see Jesus for who he really is.
Thankfully, he is making all things new. Amen.