Feb Trinity
Luke 8:
22-25
On one of
those days he boarded a ship with his disciples, and he said to them, ‘Let us
go across to the other side of the lake.’ And they cast off, and while they
were sailing he fell asleep. Then a great storm arose over the lake. The waves
broke over them so that they were in great danger. Then they went to him, woke
him and said, ‘Master, master, we are perishing!’ And he arose and raised his
hand against the wind and the tumultuous waves. Then the elements ceased raging,
and there was a great calm. And he said, ‘Where is your faith?’ And overwhelmed
by fear and astonishment, they said to one another, ‘Who can this be who
commands the wind and the water, and they obey him?2nd February Trinity
Luke 8: 22-25
In wind and air there are times of calm, and times of
movement. Usually the movement comes during times of change in the weather, in
the transitions.
Our lives also have times when we are in transition.
Transitions are often uncomfortable. In our inner landscape, we may feel
ourselves ‘at sea’. We may experience emotional upheavals as the winds of
change create waves of emotion that threaten to overwhelm us.
But there is a force of will that can command our inner wind
and waves. It is the force of our own eternal I AM, carried by Christ.
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Christ asks his disciples, asks us, ‘Where is your faith?’
We can hear this, not as a criticism, but as an actual question. In what do we
put our faith? To what (or whom) do we entrust ourselves? What anchors us as we
ride out life’s stormy transitions?
And as the Psalmist sings:
God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though
the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam….
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;….[2]
