Understand What Jesus Is Saying

How easy it is to misunderstand Christ. I can read His words with confidence and then, with my very next thought, react to the world around me as if I never heard Him in the first place.

It happens time and again with me, just as it did with His disciples.

In Mark 4, after delivering four very powerful messages (the parables of the sower, the growing seed, the mustard seed, and the lamp on a stand), Jesus invites His disciples to get into a boat and go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. As they are crossing, a storm of epic proportions causes even these seasoned fishermen to fear for their lives. Jesus, however, remained asleep in the boat. The disciples woke Jesus and in desperation cried, ““Teacher, don’t you even care that we are all about to drown?” Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. (Mark 4:38-39).

What did Jesus say and what do we think he said? Greg Laurie expresses it this way in Sailing Through The Storm:

Jesus was saying, in effect, “Boys, you haven’t learned anything. I said, ‘Let’s cross over to the other side.’ I didn’t say, ‘Let’s go to the middle of the Sea of Galilee and drown.’ ”

Let’s hear the words of Jesus with the clarity of who He is and not what the world would cause us to believe.

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