Boy, doesn't that verse look familiar? It should, because it's about that one time when Jesus walked on the water. Remember that?
Well, here's a refresher anyways. Jesus had done a miracle, and sent His disciples out to cross the lake without Him. He went up on a mountain alone to pray. (He tended to do that, which is pretty awesome.) It had been a windy, stormy night, so the disciples had been working hard on the boat, and were still in the middle of the lake.
Jesus decided He's just going to take a stroll over the wind and the waves and see what's up with His disciples.
So as He's walking, one of the disciple probably noticed Him and thought he'd gone crazy. Was seeing things. But then another one pointed it out. "Is that a person out there?" And they all, in between shifts of bailing, rowing, and manipulating the ship, saw the same thing.
And when a bunch of tired men get together and work until they can't anymore, they get tired, and assume they're just seeing things. Or maybe it's a ghost. Being the superstitious lot they were, they assumed they were seeing a ghost, and became utterly terrified. "That's what's causing this storm!" "We're gonna die!"
They saw something they couldn't explain, and became terrified. How often do we do that? How often do we find a situation that doesn't make sense and assume we're going to be crushed by it? When things spin out of comfortably in control, don't we freak out like we've seen a ghost?
But Jesus called out to the disciples and told them to stop being sissies and take courage. He was in the storm with them. And truth is, He'll be there with you, in all of the worst of your situations. He can get you out of them, if you take a step of faith towards Him and never let your focus move from Him.
It's just a suggestion.
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