fear

The Gospel testifies that Jesus worked many miracles. Today we hear that with his voice, with his words, he was able to quell the storm. The wind ceased and there was “a great calm.” Isn’t it true that when we hear miracles like these we grow expectant of miracles in our own lives? We are even tempted to think sometimes that if God were truly God, or if God truly cared about us, the storms of this world would never touch us. Or even if the storms came, some profound payer would bring a miracle and calm. How can we expect this when according to the Gospel, it was Jesus who sent the disciples into the storm? It was Jesus who said, “Let us go to the other side.” And even after he calmed the storm, it was Jesus who questioned them saying, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” None of us likes to suffer the storms of the world, yet that is precisely where Christ sends us. Not to be afraid, but to have trust. This is one message of today’s Gospel.