"JESUS got into the boat and HIS disciples followed HIM. Without warning, a fierce storm burst upon the lake, with waves sweeping the boat. But JESUS was asleep.
The disciples woke HIM up and cried, 'LORD save us! We are lost!' But JESUS answered, 'Why are you so afraid, you of little faith?' Then HE stood up and rebuked the wind and sea; and it became completely calm.
The disciples were astonished. They said, 'What kind of man is HE? Even the winds and the sea obey HIM.'" - Matthew 8:23-27
(In Jewish mentality the sea is a daily reminder of primitive chaos, it is there the marine monsters move around, monsters which only GOD, for HE is the all-powerful, can challenge: Leviathan and Rahab. In commanding the sea: Quiet now! Be still!. Just as HE does with the demons [Mark 1:25] JESUS affirms HIS divine power over the forces of evil.
Confronted with all the forms of evil that attack them, in the midst of tempests that arise, people, at times, wonder if GOD "does not sleep." JESUS is there. HE is not surprised by the disciples' fear of the tempest, but of their lack of faith; only trust in the victory of JESUS, Son of GOD, over the forces of evil, will allow them to overcome this fear.
At the very instant when they discover this divine power in JESUS, the apostles are terrified, as was Moses at the burning bush [Exodus 3:1], and Isaiah at the time of his vision in the temple [Isaiah 6:5], as all those to whom GOD shows HIMSELF in a special way: more than a friend, more than a master, JESUS revealed HIMSELF to them in the truth of HIS being. This fear in discovering GOD so close to them was greater than the fear they had felt during the tempest a few moments earlier.)
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