The Calming of the Storm

You know the time when Jesus and the Apostles were in the boat and a great storm erupted. But Jesus was sleeping…

a.  Jesus slept in the boat, and the apostles were dismayed, because it seemed to them as though their world was falling apart

                                         i.    So why wasn’t Jesus paying attention?

b.  Of course, Jesus was paying attention

                                         i.    Jesus is fully God and fully man

Everything obeys God – except us

a.  Jesus didn’t just know everything that was happening around that little boat.

                                         i.    Jesus was actually governing the entire world while He slept: He was even controlling the storm, because God controls the whole of nature at all times, and Jesus is God

b.  The winds and the water were obeying Him when they raged just as they obeyed Him immediately when He told them to be still

                                         i.    In fact, the whole of creation obeys Jesus. The whole universe is like a great symphony that perfectly responds to the direction of the divine conductor

1.  When God says to sing, the birds sing. When God tells the earth to revolve, it revolves. When Jesus tells the water to turn into wine, it turns.

2.  Of all the material world, only we humans regularly miss our cues in the symphony of creation.

a.  We come in too late, or too early. We play the wrong notes at the wrong time.

b.  Because we’re not paying attention. We’re not keeping our eyes on the Conductor.