WALKING WITH JESUS IN A STORM [DEVOTION] - 15 August 2008
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This week’s Devotion:
WALKING WITH JESUS IN A STORM
Mark 6:45-56
It was the middle of the night. There were high winds, crashing waves, low visibility, and only a small boat on the Sea of Galilee. For the disciples, the situation had reached crisis proportions, and Jesus was not with them. He was on the mountainside praying, and they were alone.
Hidden by the storm, perhaps they thought Jesus had forgotten them. However, He knew exactly where the disciples were and what they were experiencing. Though we can't see Jesus physically, He is omniscient - He can identify where we are at every moment. No darkness can hide us; no trial can obscure His vision. We are always seen, known, and understood!
Leaving that place of prayer, Jesus sought out the disciples. He will do the same for us as well. However, the disciples did not recognize Him because He went to them by walking on the water. Jesus often does not come the way we might expect. Our preconceived ideas of how He works can cause us to wonder where He is and fail to recognize His nearness.
Experiencing Jesus' presence in hard times can teach us precious truths. During an earlier rough sea adventure, the disciples observed both Jesus' trust in God and His authority over nature (Matthew 8:23-26). In the latest storm, they watched the Lord walk on water - and they saw one of their own do it too. Through the storms, they learned who Jesus was, what He could do, and what their own potential was.
When turmoil hits, let's ask for spiritual eyes to discern the Lord's presence. Then, we must listen for His voice and obey (John 10:27).
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QOUTES:
You were created to be an instrument of God. When you are not being used as an instrument of God, neither you nor God will find satisfaction in your use. There is a word for things that are not used for their intended purpose -- it's called perversion. God created you for His own good. When you are used for bad your use is being perverted. And there is no satisfaction in perversion. Whether we're talking about perverting sex, perverting money, perverting time or perverting our lives -- there is no satisfaction in perversion. -- Randy Hunt
This is our doctrine: the permanent value of trial--that when you conquer your adversaries and your difficulties, it is not as if you never had encountered them. Your victory is colored with the hard struggle that won it. Your sea of glass is always mixed with fire, just as this peaceful crust of earth on which we live, with its wheat fields, vineyards, orchards, and flower beds is full still of the power of the convulsion that wrought it into its present shape, of the floods and volcanoes and glaciers that have rent it or drowned it or tortured it. Just so, the life that has been overturned and overturned by the strong hand of God, filled with the deep, revolutionary forces of suffering, and purified by the strong fires of temptation keeps its long discipline forever. There roots in that discipline the deepest growths of the most sunny and luxuriant spiritual life that it is ever able to attain.
--Phillips Brooks
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