On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them just as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. And a great storm of wind arise, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do you not care if we perish? And He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still.” And the wind ceased.
Look at the word care, or you can replace it with one big word you all know worry. “Don’t you care that we are perishing? Do you not worry at all? Are you not concerned for us?” Jesus stood up and said, “Why are you so fearful?”
You can never calm the storm that rages against you until you have that calm in your own life. Unless that peace is in your own heart you cannot release it through your spoken word.
The Prince of Peace says peace.
Unless you are at rest you cannot bring others into rest.
Unless you are at peace you cannot bring others to peace.
Have you seen some one who is frustrated and tense trying to calm another guy? They will add to the problem.
Have you seen some one who is fearful trying to tell some one not to be fearful? You can’t give what you don’t have. Unless peace is in your heart you cannot release it out. Jesus was sleeping on a pillow. He was at rest. And He releases rest.
If you have a storm raging on your inside, how can you calm the storm raging on the outside? And yet so many Christians have storms raging on their inside. Outside they put on a plastic mask. But inside there are lightning bolts, thunder storms and all kinds of turmoil going on.
Hebrews 4:9-10
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God; for whoever enters God’s rest also ceases from his labors as God did from His.
We can rest and be at peace.
We can learn from Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
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