Again we read about another storm on the Sea of Galilee in today's Gospel (Mk 4:35-41); this time Jesus is in the boat asleep. How tired he must have been! Many of us know the feeling! The disciples, seasoned fishermen, some of them, are again worried, and wake him. The storm stops, but the rebuke from Jesus is the same: "Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?" (Mk 4:40). The YET is important for them and for us... How many times have we let fear terrorize us after many years and reassurances that there is nothing to fear. God is with us, has a plan for us, takes care of us better than we do for ourselves, will not let us perish or bear a burden beyond our strength (his strength, if we give the fear over to him) and in the end, everything will turn out all right? Again and again we have to be rebuked and taught; but God never seems to tire of us and our slowness to learn.
May we humbly ask him to bear with our "disability" and continue to repeat the same lessons until we finally grasp them.
Bro. Rene
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