THE BOAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO SINK

The disciples has just watched Jesus feed the 5000 and the disciples had had hands on experience in a great miracle. They saw the awesome power of God. Jesus was rung out and weary. He told the disciples to get in the boat and go to the other side. He went up the mountain to pray and be alone with the father. To remove himself from the ministry of the crowds. Jesus had been training the disciples for the ministry for months, they still did not get it. They are in the boat. A storm comes up. Faith flees in the presence of fear. The enemy convinces them the boat is going to sink. They believe the lie. Jesus has been teaching them to do what he does and to say what he says. That all he says and all he does comes from the father to him and is released from him to his followers. He sends them off alone armed with faith. Trouble comes(the storm) they lose faith and embrace fear. They move from the land of more than enough (miracles) to the land of lack (we are not enough). Refreshed, Jesus comes strolling by, walking on the water. The scriptures says he would have walked by but they called out to him. We can learn an important lesson from their experience. When Jesus was not present they felt fear and they felt powerless. When he showed up faith returned and they felt powerful. With him there... everything would be all right. Peace comes to still the storm. The same thing happens to us. When we drift away from his presence we become weak and powerless, but when we pray and praise forth his presence miracles can happened, answered prayer is a surety. The thing they failed to realize is the boat was never meant to sink. It's destiny was to reach the other side. In our faith our destiny is not to sink but to reach the other side. Heaven is our destiny. Another lesson is that as soon as their faith got them through the mess they were in and they got to the other side... the person they met was a house for a legion of demons. What a reward. God has such a sense of humor. A great lesson we can learn from the demoniac is that he was indestructible. When you are in the hand of God you are so valuable that nothing can stop who you are meant to be. Think of all the man went through. He tried to kill himself to rid himself of the torment but he could not. Others bound him with chains and they could not hold him. When Jesus healed him and returned him to his right mind he sent him home to tell others what God had done for him. Get that... His reward was to go home. Our reward at the end of our destiny is to go home...a place of rest and comfort and peace to think on HIM and all He has done for us. Remember be-loved no matter the storm...no matter the world's report the boat was never meant to sink. God bless Linda.