Jesus was with his disciples in the boat and they were all believing men, but when He spoke to them after He calmed the storm, He was intimating that He did not see any faith in exercise in them at all, at that particularly dangerous time. Jesus asks them why they are fearful? They have no answer. In another translation Jesus says, "Why are you so timid?" He is implying that a believer ought to have a strong and courageous faith in exercise in such situations. One of the main reasons that I believe that their faith was so low; the reason that it looked to be non-existent, was because the situation which they were in, this terrible storm, had caused them to be frightened, and because they were frightened their ability to exercise faith was paralyzed. The storm which threatened to swamp their boat caused them to believe they would all lose their lives. So the question that we want to ask ourselves this morning is this; "What will enable us to have faith in exercise in the most critical times of our experience?" I believe that there are three things which our Lord Jesus would teach us from this text which will help us to exercise a greater and stronger faith in Him in the days to come. The 1st thing to remember is that it was the Lord Jesus Himself who led them into the situation of difficulty that tested their faith. The 2nd thing to remember is that the Lord Jesus does care for those trusting in Him. And the 3rd thing to remember is that He does have control of all nature and all situations of difficulty that we as believers are undergoing and passing through. Let's think about these points together.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
