What Are You Afraid Of

 Mark 4:40

Mark 4:35–41 (NRSV): “On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. 40 He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” 

Jesus asked the disciples, “Why are you afraid?” They had been with Jesus and had witnessed miracles, but now they are afraid of the storm. They missed Jesus cues that he was resting. He didn’t speak to their fear, but to what frightened them. 

He rebuked the wind and told the sea “Peace! be Still!”That rebuke in the Greek refers to exorcism and suggests that the wind was demonic. That’s powerful. Again, he speaks to what frightened us. We are frightened by one thing but it may be something totally different. 

Yes, there are times that we forget our ‘befores’, what he has done for us before. But if we remember we can live in our ‘now’.  We have to know that he has us in anything and everything. There is no fear. enough for now