Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” 26 But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”
Jesus. Disciples. Matthew 8:25–27. Hi, it’s Nathan, and this is Day 15 of 30 Days of Pushing Back Fear. After all Jesus said about not being afraid—we’d have to catch him showing us the way at some point. And we do. In this case, fast asleep in a stomach-churning, sleep-destroying storm. When his terrified companions awake him, alerting him to the crisis, he responds: “why are you all spun-up in fear? You have teeny, tiny faith.” Is that it, then—when our hair stands on end and our heart tries to break out of our chest—it’s because we have teeny, tiny faith? Apparently, learning to believe in the big, good heart of God for us, even when we can’t feel its steady pulse, is the secret to sleeping on the wild seas of life.
