Quiet! Be Still!

 

Wind and Wave Obey Jesus

³⁵ On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” ³⁶ Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. ³⁷ And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. ³⁸ But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

³⁹ Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace,^[a] be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How^[b] is it that you have no faith?” ⁴¹ And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

How often do we need to hear the command:  "Quiet! Be Still!"? Most of the time, the storm that  scares us is not from outside, but from within.  Our imaginations blow out of control as all kinds of possibilities (always negative) circle about and gain strength with the passage of time.  What we imagine, as it turns out, is always never what the reality is, and we find that our anxiety was  for naught.  Yet we keep sailing into this storm.  We need to place placards all around us with the message, "Quiet! Be Still!" written on them in bright red   We need to make this message an hourly, or even more frequent mantra. Let's start now!

Bro. Rene