Wednesday, April 14, 2010

 

What should they have done?

In the boat while Jesus slept.

Combining Mt., Mk., and Lk., "Master! Master! We are perishing ..." "Lord, save us!" "Teacher, don't you care that we are perishing?"

And he said to them "Why are you fearful, you of little faith." "Where is your faith?" "How is it you have no faith?"

So, how should they have responded? Should they have concluded "Jesus is in the boat, so it's not going to sink ... let's just keep rowing and bailing." Or should they have said "Jesus, if you could wake up for a second and calm the water it would be good because it's coming in faster than we can bail." Or should they have concluded that they could rebuke the wind and waves themselves?

I don't know. What did Jesus expect from them? What would a response of faith have been? What would I have done?

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