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• Today's "Moment with Mark" - (41) Power over Nature

  1 January, 2013

  I really enjoyed the last 10 days spent with Luke as he told us things about the birth of Christ that none of the other Bible writers have done. If you missed those sessions, you will find them on my blog under the theme "Learning with Luke". Even so, I have been looking forward to re-connecting with Mark and journeying through the rest of his gospel. As you join me today, let me remind you that these reflections are not designed to be in-depth devotional teaching; rather, they are snatches of insight and inspiration....single point in application but allowing the Lord to use them as stepping-off points each day.

  
  But soon a fierce storm arose. High waves began to break into the boat until it was nearly full of water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. Frantically they woke him up, shouting, "Teacher, don't you even care that we are going to drown?" (Mark 4:37, 38 NLT)
   

  Hands up those who know from experience that God sometimes calls us to go with Him and, no sooner do we obey His directive, than the storm breaks and it feels like everything is going down the gurgler? Hmmm, quite a lot of you, I see. Jesus made it clear that His will was that they go to the other side. But all the evidence was that this was a trip that would end in tragedy.  However, when Jesus says, "Let's go to the other side" guess where we are going? 

  
  Now, hands up those of us know from experience that often, when we feel our greatest need of God, He seems to be totally disinterested? Again, a veritable forest of arms! In the midst of those experiences it feels like He has taken a cushion and gone somewhere to sleep. Yet we are told in Psalm 121/3,4 that the One who watches over Israel neither slumbers or sleeps. So what's with the cushion?

  As the storm reaches lethal dimensions, the obvious question that the disciples ask is, "Don't you care that we are about to drown?" "Don't you care...?"  Things must be very desperate before we ask this question. Is this the question that bursts from your heart today? I urge you to read the closing summary statement of the disciples when they watched how He dealt with the life-threatening storm.

  
  "Who is this man, that even the wind and waves obey him?"   (Mark 4:41 NLT)
  That realisation puts the storm in to some kind of clarifying perspective. The waves that threaten us in the midst of the storm have no power over us. God help us in the midst of the storm to rest in the reality of this fact; they are under His control.

  
  Now go find yourself a cushion and join the Lord Jesus in the back of the boat and do what He is doing.