Authority Over Nature – Mark 4:35-41

Take your copy of God’s Word and meet me in Mark 4:35-41… In this life, one’s vantage point and context can be everything. Say you’re walking by a gym that has open windows. You see a man struggling on the bench press, and his spotter has his phone out and is failing to aid the man. You’d assume he doesn’t care, or perhaps even worse, that he’s rooting for his destruction. But if only you were to walk into the gym, you’d discover that the man is recording the event and providing him with encouraging words to push the weight off himself. Or maybe you see two people in a car, and the individual in the passenger seat violently grabs the wheel. You think that they’re trying to put the driver in some kind of harm. When really, the person in the driver seat is learning to drive, the passenger grabbed the wheel to save their lives by keeping the car straight. You see, it’s easy for us to look at a situation without context and think the worse about a person. So it is to look at our circumstances without a heavenly context and assume that the Lord God is indifferent to our plight. However, when we consider the glory of the Lord Jesus, this should help correct our misconception. The disciples in this text didn’t have the correct perspective; therefore, they lacked faith. However, Jesus revealed his glory to them, and I believe he’ll do the same for us this morning through the Word of God.