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OUR LORD WALKING ON WATER
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
John 6:16-21

Job 23:1-10

 

He is the Lord of creation.

 

OUR LORD WALKING ON WATER
 
We should notice in these verses the trials through which Christ’s disciples had to pass. We are told that they were sent over the lake by themselves while their Master tarried behind. And then we see them alone in a dark night, tossed about by a great wind on stormy waters and, worst of all, Christ not with them. It was a strange transition. From witnessing a mighty miracle and helping it instrumentally, amidst an admiring crowd, to solitude, darkness, winds, waves, storm, anxiety and danger, the change was very great! But Christ knew it and Christ appointed it, and it was working for their good.
 
Trial, we must distinctly understand, is part of the diet which all true Christians must expect. It is one of the means by which their grace is proved and by which they find out what there is in themselves. Winter as well as summer, cold as well as heat, clouds as well as sunshine are all necessary to bring the fruit of the Spirit to ripeness and maturity. We do not naturally like this. We would rather cross the lake with calm weather and favourable winds, with Christ always by our side and the sun shining down on our faces. But it may not be. It is not in this way that God’s children are made “partakers of his holiness” (Heb 12:10).
 
The Lord Jesus came to His disciples as they were rowing on the stormy lake, “walking on” (John 6:19) the waters. He walked on them as easily as we walk on dry land. They bore Him as firmly as the pavement of the temple, or the hills around Nazareth. That which is contrary to all natural reason was perfectly possible to Christ.
 
It was just as easy for Him to walk on the sea as to form the sea at the beginning, just as easy to suspend the common laws of nature, as they are called, as to impose those laws at the first.
 
THOUGHT: He who created and sustains this world can keep His people secure through their trials and snares.

PRAYER: Father, I praise Thee for Thou art the all-powerful God.

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