Got Faith? No Fear.

A good question.

Especially since Jesus asked this of His disciples right after He calmed the storm which moments before threatened to swamp their boat on the Sea of Galilee.

His point was they had nothing to fear. He was with them. If they truly had faith in who He was, they would know they had nothing to fear at all. No storm, no sea, no depth, no darkness could touch them.

When in the company of Jesus, there is nothing to fear.

Why are we so afraid?

We do fear, don't we? I don't mean a healthy fear of the Lord, or a Biblical fear of God.  I mean fear of storms, of waves crashing over our little boats and sweeping us out into the vast sea of the world where we'll be lost forever. The smallest waves make us tremble. True storms fill us with terror.

Why?

Why are we so afraid? Is Jesus in our boat? If you belong to Him, then yes, He is. We might think He is sleeping, just as the disciples thought in Mark Chapter 4. We might think He doesn't care if we drown, just like they did.

We're wrong.  Absolutely, completely wrong.

The problem isn't His lack of care. It's our lack of faith.

Even the winds and the waves obey Him.

The disciples, hardy men they were, went from terror of the storm right into terror of the One who had saved them. Read the last verse of Mark 4. They were terrified. They asked each other, "Who is this?"

Didn't they know? After all they'd heard, all they'd seen, didn't they believe?

Not with all their hearts. They believed in the calm, but when the storm came, doubt crept in.

Just like us.

It's easy to believe, to have faith, to be confident when all is well. In the storm, though, that's a different matter. That's when the truth shows.

Do we have faith, or fear?

According to Jesus, if we have one, we won't have the other.

Think about it.