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 lives. How would we handle these
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 would be encountering. For the reason that we already have
Jesus.
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 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 will be
encountering in our lives. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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