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1.3 KiB
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28 lines
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title = "Luke 8:22–25"
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date = "2022-11-24"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk8.22-25)
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After a busy day of teaching and healing people, Jesus has His disciples sail
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with Him across the lake of Galilee to go to a different region. On the way, He
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falls asleep. However, on the way a windstorm comes up and threatens to sink
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the boat. The disciples, four of whom were professional fishermen who worked on
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this lake, realize they can't do anything to save themselves, so they wake up
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Jesus. Once He is awake, He tells the wind to be quiet, and it does.
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He then asks His disciples a pointed question, "Where is your faith?" In light
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of that, they didn't seem to expect Him to surely rescue them from the danger.
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They woke Him in desperation, as last resort after trying everything else they
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could. To be fair to the disciples, despite being close to Jesus, they were
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still in the dark about His purposes and true nature. They knew He was the
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Messiah, but not exactly what that meant yet. They had seen Him perform
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miracles, but those have nearly all been healings so it is fair to say that
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doesn't necessarily mean they should have known He could control the weather as
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well. But maybe now they are starting see what had been hidden from them.
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* * *
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Let us see You as You truly are, glorious and majestic and worthy of all
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praise.
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