“But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘Be of good cheer!
It is I; do not be afraid.’” Matthew 14:27
Just when
I thought spring was coming we are now alerted with a severe winter storm
warning and we are expecting at least a foot of snow! When I saw the alert in
the morning I had to cancel my visits. I like to stay on my schedule and so I
don’t like cancelling. I feel like I am discouraging people when I tell them I
cannot come today because of the weather. But what can I do about that? I am no
super hero where I can just fly through the storm. All I can do is just sit in
and wait until the storm stops.
But you know what? Jesus was different. After Jesus performed
the miracle of feeding the 5000, Jesus told the disciples to get on the boat to
go ahead to the other side of the lake. Jesus wanted to spend some time alone
to pray. Jesus was to meet the disciples again later.
While the disciples were going across the lake, there was a
windstorm. How unlucky it was for them to meet such a strong wind. If they had
weather forecast like us today, they might not have been on the lake. But they
were on the lake, a great windstorm came by, and they were now being tossed
here and there. At that moment, Jesus appeared on the lake! Jesus was walking
on the lake towards the disciples in the middle of the windstorm! None of this
made any sense to them. It still does not make any sense to us today either.
Walking on the water? Making your way in the middle of a storm? The disciples
freaked out and they thought this Man was a ghost! I would have thought so,
too! This man suddenly spoke up: ‘Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.’
When Jesus got onto the boat, the “wind ceased.”
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