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 when He allowed them to go through
severe storm? If He was, then Jesus found out that His disciples were terribly
wanting in faith. Jesus calmed the violent sea storm to assure His disciples
that He is in control of everything.
We too
will encounter storms in our life. How would we handle these life storms? Would
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 would learn to trust Jesus more than we trust on
ourselves. If only we will not lean on our own finite understanding.
We would
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 would be encountering in
our lives. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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