Peace, Be Still

“…What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” (Mark 4:41)

Their little ship was about to be swamped in the waves produced by the winds on the Sea of Galilee. When the disciples awakened their Master He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace, be still.” And there was a great calm.

They had never seen anything like that. Have you? That prompted the question in our text, “What manner of man is this?”

He was God dressed in man’s flesh and living among us. He is the unique, “Son of God.” He was all man when He was thirsty, hungry, tired, angry or sleepy. On the other hand, He was all God when He healed a paralyzed man, when he fed five thousand men plus women and children with five barley loaves and to small fish, when He restored life to a widow woman’s son and when He restored sight to blinded eyes.

He is the God/man. He is as much God as He is man and as much man as He is God. He can give you eternal life and lead you in paths of righteousness. He will walk with you through the valley of the shadow of death. He will show you a way through when it seems there is no way. He gives help to the helpless and hope to the hopeless.