Gospel: Mark 4:35-41
On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said
to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.” Leaving the crowd, they
took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him.
A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was
already filling up. Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him
and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? He woke up, rebuked
the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still! The wind ceased and there was
great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have
faith?” They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is
this whom even wind and sea obey?”
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Reflection:
Was Jesus only testing the faith of His
disciples? If He was, then Jesus found out that His disciples was terribly
wanting in faith. Jesus calmed the violent sea storm to assure them all that He
was in control of everything.
We too will encounter storms in our life. How
would we handle these storms? Will we allow these storms to defeat us and
prevent us from living our lives? Or we continue to become calm under duress
caused by these life storms?
The obvious answer is we will continue to
be calm no matter how difficult the storm/s that we will be encountering. For
the reason that we have Jesus in our life, we know that Jesus will take charge
of every life storm that we will be encountering.
We are often times easily rattled by our
life storms or problems because we are lacking in faith. If only we will learn
to trust Jesus more than we trust on ourselves. If only we will not lean on our
own finite understanding. We will then be able to discover how mightily
powerful Jesus is. That Jesus is more than enough to defeat any kind of life
storms that we will be encountering in our lives. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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