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THE STILLING OF THE TEMPEST
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Mark 4:35-41; Matthew 8:23-27; Luke 8:22-25

Hebrews 11:32-38

 

He is the Lord

of Creation.

 

THE STILLING OF THE TEMPEST
 
True saving faith is often mingled with much weakness and infirmity. It is a humbling lesson but a very wholesome one. The disciples’ fears (Mark 4:38) are rooted in a lack of faith (Mark 4:40). What a vivid picture we have here of the hearts of thousands of believers! How many have faith and love enough to follow Christ and yet are full of fears in the hour of trial! How many have grace enough to cry, “Lord, save us,” and yet not grace enough to lie still and believe in the darkest hour that all is well!
 
Let the prayer, “Lord, increase our faith,” always form part of our daily petitions. We never perhaps know the weakness of our faith until we are placed in the furnace of trial and anxiety. Blessed and happy is that person who finds by experience that his faith can stand the fire, and that he can say with Job, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15).
 
Our Lord, as God, has almighty power. He calms the raging storm with a few words (Mark 4:39). The elements knew the voice of their Master and, like obedient servants, were quiet at once. With the Lord Jesus, nothing is impossible. No stormy passions are too strong for Him to tame. No temper is so rough and violent that He cannot change. No conscience is so disquieted that He cannot speak peace to it and make it calm. No man ever need despair if he will only bow down his pride and come as a humbled sinner to Christ. Christ can do miracles in his heart. No man ever need despair of reaching his journey’s end if he has once committed his soul to Christ’s keeping. Christ will carry him through every danger. Christ will make him conqueror over every foe. What though our relations oppose us? What though our neighbours laugh us to scorn? What though our place be hard? What though our temptations be great? It is all nothing if Christ is on our side and we are in the ship with Him.
 
THOUGHT: Faith looks beyond the circumstances to the Hands which mould them for the good of the church (Rom 8:28).

PRAYER: I thank Thee, Father, for Thy almighty Hand in my life.

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