Monday Devotional: Fear and Faith (Mark 4:35-41)
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” (Mark 4:35-41).
The Christian life involves both fear and faith. We want to believe. We want to be faithful, but we also wonder: Can we really trust God? Does God hear our prayers? The disciples struggled, too. Even though they had traveled with Jesus, heard him teach, and watched him perform miracles, they still struggled to trust him. Yet Jesus wasn’t satisfied leaving them in their fear. He called them to something better.
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