“LET US GO ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE!”

 Luke 8:22-25                                       (ESV)

“22 One day HE got into a boat with HIS disciples, and HE said to them, "”LET US GO ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE” of the lake." So they set out,

23 and as they sailed HE fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger.

24 And they went and woke HIM, saying, "MASTER, MASTER, we are perishing!" And HE awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and THERE WAS A CALM.

25 HE said to them, "Where is your faith?" And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, "WHO then is this, that HE commands even winds and water, and they obey HIM?"”

Once again, words from a note from A.W. Tozer an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor the book entitled “GOD’s Gentle Whisper” are causing me to meditate, to SLOW DOWN and absorb things of the SPIRIT!  Praying to ALMIGHTY GOD isn’t like going grocery shopping, with a list of things we want, or need, to get through the day.  When we really grasp that our CREATOR fully understands our wants and needs, we can REST in performing exactly what we are made to accomplish.  Doing things that we aren’t CREATED to do can cause us to feel like a shoe that has been outgrown, crammed with a foot that is too large in a shoe used to fit just right, but now is no longer appropriate for the owner!  

The excerpt from the book is shared ends with “Prayer at its holiest moment is the entering into GOD to a place of such BLESSED UNION as MAKES MIRACLES SEEM TAME and remarkable answers to prayer appear something very far short of WONDERFUL BY COMPARISON” is a calming and assuring statement.  JESUS says in Matthew 19:26 “With man this is IMPOSSIBLE, but with GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE." We cannot enlighten GOD about the difficulties we are having to endure, for HE, through HIS SON, experienced DEATH, HELL, and the GRAVE for our redemption!  HE is fully aware of everything we are experiencing, long before we any symptoms of tribulations exist!  

The disciples had to have been weary from the day’s work, but JESUS had already told them “LET US GO ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE”, and there wasn’t a disclaimer with that statement!  They must have been so caught up in DOING things for JESUS that they weren’t paying attention to what JE actually said?  Although the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES had already told them “LET US GO ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE”, the storms had their attention and they couldn’t SEE passed them.  They were tossed to and fro, but JESUS was sleeping in the hull of the boat!

Don’t you imagine that JESUS KNEW when HE laid down that the wind would become an issue?  The TEST has to come before there is a TESTIMONY!   Amazement and wonder filled the hearts and minds of the disciples as they could not believe that this MAN could even control the winds and seas with HIS WORD!  “LET US GO ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE” was a message that they would be delivered, not that there would be a smooth trip!  We need to understand that storms may blow up and cause us to have fear, but when we are told “LET US GO ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE” that HE has promised never to leave us nor forsake us and THERE IS A CALM right around the corner!!!