Showing posts with label Luke 8: 22 - 25 Psalm 46. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

2nd February Trinity 2011, I AM

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

Feb 13, 2011
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?
 One thing we can entrust ourselves to is God’s love, and the beneficence of his will for us. We can have faith that nothing that happens to us can kill our real self, our true I AM. For as Paul says, ‘I know from experience: neither the forces of death nor the forces of life, neither angels nor Mights, neither things present nor things to come, not the World-Powers themselves, neither heights nor depths nor any other thing or Being in creation can separate us from the love of God which took on body in Christ Jesus our Lord.’[1]

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]




[1] Paul’s Letter to the Romans, chapter 8, verses 37 - 39
[2] Psalm 46