“IT IS I!”

 Mark 6:45-52                    (ESV)

JESUS Walks on the Water

“[45] Immediately HE MADE HIS disciples get into the boat and go before HIM to the other side, to Bethsaida, while HE dismissed the crowd. [46] And after HE had taken leave of them, HE WENT UP TO THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY. [47] And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and HE WAS ALONE ON THE LAND. [48] And HE saw that they were making headway PAINFULLY, for THE WIND WAS AGAIN THEM. And about the fourth watch of the night HE CAME TO THEM, walking on the sea. HE meant to pass by them, [49] but when they saw HIM walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out, [50] for they all saw HIM AND WERE TERRIFIED. But immediately HE spoke to them and said, “Take heart; “IT IS I”. DO NOT BE AFRAID.” [51] And HE got into the boat with them, AND THE WIND CEASED. And they were UTTERLY ASTOUNDED, [52] for THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE LOAVES, but THEIR HEARTS WERE HARDENED.” 

The fact that JESUS IS GOD doesn’t always manifest itself to HIS CHOSEN, even when we are doing what we have been instructed to do??  The disciples were being MADE to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. JESUS CREATED the Sea of Galilee and was very familiar with the winds that blew over it.  HE didn’t need to RUSH to the precise position going across the water, HE KNEW where they would be AND HE KNEW there would be TURMOIL during their trip!!!

JESUS WENT UP TO THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY, something that our CREATOR did frequently during HIS ministry.  HIS disciples were on the lowest freshwater lake in the world DOING WHAT THEY WERE INSTRUCTED, going to the other side!  WHEN JESUS finished PRAYING (not before!), HE CAME TO THEM!  They were SO caught up in the wind storm that they thought JESUS was a spirit.  They couldn’t SEE that JESUS was teaching them IN THEIR OBEDIENCE that HE WAS GOD and controlled EVERYTHING, even the winds surrounding the Sea of Galilee!  “HE got into the boat with them, AND THE WIND CEASED.” is recorded in Mark 6:51!  

JESUS had JUST demonstrated WHO HE was, but their hearts were fully recognizing what they SAW!!!  Mark 6:54 says “THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE LOAVES, but THEIR HEARTS WERE HARDENED.”  JESUS told the disciples “IT IS I”, but they were not able to SEE precisely WHO HE WAS, for they didn’t have the HOLY SPIRIT until after he was crucified, resurrected and has ascended to Heaven!!!  Their EYES weren’t able to SEE because they were not in CONTROL, JESUS WAS!!!

I can’t SEE things that occur in my life as being a “teaching session” for me to mature in the LORD and HIS PROVISION!  HE delivered me from the Brain Hemorrhage in 2007 and HE hasn’t lost ANY POWER since HE SPOKE the worlds into existence!!!  SEEING “IT IS I” in my life is something that I am SLOWLY being taught!  My EYES will NOT be OPENED to SEE what is going on in my life until “IT IS I” knows that it is time!!!