“WALKING ON THE SEA!”

 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.” 

One would assume that a person who has been WHERE I have been would grasp that “NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD” (Luke 1:37)!  But if I were on the water in a boat and a man came walking up to my boat ON THE WATER, I might be a little bit shook!!!

In the passage of Scripture above the Disciples had to be a little out of sorts because they were battling the Sea of Galilee PAINFULLY and they saw a “MAN” walking towards their boat.  They thought that JESUS was still dealing with the throngs of people that HE had ministered to, but HE was precisely where HE was needed, in the midst of the Sea of Galilee!!  

I am learning (through my THICK skull!) that this same JESUS is there for me today!  After I had been in a drug-induced coma for seventeen days in 2007, HE came “WALKING ON THE SEA”!  After I had my anomalous coronary arteries bypassed ten years later l, HE came “WALKING OK THE SEA”!  HE IS THERE FOR ME, but SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER my EYES have to be OPENED so I can SEE HIM “WALKING ON THE SEA”!!!