WHO IS THIS MAN?

Mark 4:41 NLT The disciples were absolutely terrified. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “Even the wind and waves obey him!”

We know what it’s like, the disciples had had a busy day, the crowds were everywhere wanting to hear Jesus and He’d told them all to pile in the boat and go over to the other side of the lake for some rest. So Jesus settles down and promptly falls asleep in the back of the boat while the disciples see to the travelling arrangements.🙂

So they did what He said and were in the middle of the lake when a humdinger of a storm blew up while Jesus was fast asleep! Well they did their best but in the end they felt compelled to wake Him up and ask for help as it looked like they were sinking! Do we do that sometimes? A storm has blown up, we think Jesus is not paying attention, so we struggle on by ourselves until we can’t cope and only then do we think we better ask God for help?🙂

Even though they’d woken Jesus up, what were they expecting Him to do - help bale out the water? Instead He goes to the core of the trouble and takes authority over it and tells it to stop. He used His faith, and then remonstrates with them for not using their faith! The implication was they could have dealt with it with their own faith, but they hadn’t used it because it hadn’t occurred to them that they could! They’re so overwhelmed that all they can say is “Who is this man?” 

I wonder, “who is this man” to each one of us, including me? Are we ‘doing’ life in our own strength because we haven’t recognised, as born again Christians, we are actually ‘in Him’, ‘in Christ’, that we are God filled and empowered and the power He has, is available to all of us, all the time, if we’ll use our faith?

Galations 2:20 NKJV I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 

Many scriptures say the Greater One is ‘in us’, that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us! The same power Jesus used to still the waves and wind, lives in us! God sees us as one spirit with Him, God filled and empowered men and women! Wow!😊

God give us revelation of not only who this man Jesus is, but who we are ‘in Him’, that His Holy Spirit is in us and His power is available to us, if we’ll use our faith. In Jesus name Amen.

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