Today's reading is from:
Mark 4:35-41 NLT
As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.” So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed). But soon a fierce storm came up. High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.
Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?”
When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Silence! Be still!” Suddenly the wind stopped, and there was a great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”
It's interesting that the disciples respond by saying "who is this guy?"
They, like us struggle to believe God would care and do something with what we are praying about. Yet he does.
One of the hardest places to be is to be persistently in a place of private pain and personal faith. We must choose - and I deliberately say choose - to say in our soul and mind, "no matter what I will choose to trust you Lord".
Peace
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