What Do You Fear?

What do you fear? Is it war and terrorism, climate change, disease? If you've listened to the news recently, you know that these are topic headlines along with issues of poverty and political and economic instability.

Perhaps and more than likely, your fears are closer to home. Physical illnesses, emotional turmoil, worries over loved ones safety, financial stress.

Are you praying for a miracle?

Remember the miracle of Jesus walking on the water in the midst of a stormy sea while his disciples sat terrified in their small fishing boat?

Let's look at it in a different way. Perhaps we should be more impressed
by the fact that the miracle is not the walking on the water
but rather that Jesus seemed so calm by the possibility
 of catastrophe--the winds, the waves, the depths of the sea
and whatever lay beneath.


Jesus is an example for us. The storms of life are and will always be with us as long as we are earthly creatures. The next time you find yourself in a stormy situation, think about Jesus walking on the water...

Peter W. Marty wrote, Miracles are not the answer to the suffering that you and I do not want to experience. They're more like unanticipated signs that God is alive, Christ is Lord and suffering does not have the last word...

Faith is trusting that God is in charge.

... so while many followed Jesus to see what they could get from him, he seemed more interested in who they might become through him.
The Lutheran, April, 2015. Peter W. Marty