Ghost Or Messiah? Series

Again, we must slow down here for a moment.

The disciples have a boat with plenty of manpower. They have plenty of oars to do the job.

However, for the past 6+ hours they have been trying their best to get across the Sea of Galilee and have only made it halfway. Under normal conditions it would have only taken them about an hour or two at the most to row across the Sea of Galilee.

But here is Jesus facing the same wind blowing against him and he is able to merely walk the three miles to where they were struggling with all their might.

You have to admit that God has a sense of humor.

After having a meeting with the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit they decided that one of the best ways to get the disciples attention is to have them struggle against the wind for over six hours and then just to walk by them like they were standing still.

From Michael and Gabriel’s angelic point of view this had to look funny.

There are a bunch of humans doing their best to get somewhere and they can’t do anything because of a little windstorm. They are out there in the middle of the Sea of Galilee which is approx. 140 feet deep and they are going nowhere.

You have to wonder:

+Why hadn’t they just turned the boat around and gone back. After all, if the wind was so strong that you couldn’t barely go forward then why didn’t they just go back to where Jesus was in the first place. They could have least been with Jesus and started again later as a complete group.

+Where they just complaining and fussing and fighting with one another? John and James fighting with Peter telling him that if they would just row this way or that way then they would already be there.

+Where they to busy trying to do something in their own strength they forgot the One who has called them and just fed 5,000 can help them right now. Sometimes we get so involved in the struggles we are going through that we forget the God who can overcome all struggles.

All we know is that they believed more in ghosts than they did in the Son of God.

I mean had they ever seen a ghost?

What did they know about ghosts?

They should have known about Jesus. They had already seen Jesus calm the seas, cast out demons, heal a leper and feed 5,000. They had already listened to Jesus teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven for months.

I like the way Jesus treated them.

He doesn’t complain. He doesn’t walk away. He has been with the Father and the Spirit.

This work, this Son of God work will take time. It will take patience. It will take a lot more teaching, sharing and showing.

But for now, let’s give them something that is totally unexplainable.

If they didn’t get the lesson of feeding the 5,000, then Jesus walking on water in the middle of the Sea of Galilee during a windstorm should get their attention.

I like what they did next.

They put down their oars and they made room for Jesus.

These 12 might not have been the best and the brightest but they started catching on – this Jesus – He is more than a political freedom fighter, he is more than a miracle working chef or even an healer.