Jesus is in the boat

Mark 4:35-41

You’re in a boat out on the water. You are the boat and the water is your life. A storm kicks up out of nowhere or maybe it has been slowly building for years. Either way the wind and waves are like a wild animal battering your boat and body and racing around inside your chest. The fear and anxiety caused by the storm within and without are too much, you don’t know how you can go on. Then you remember that Jesus is in the boat. You were told when you were very young that God dwells within you, you’ve been reminded since that Christ dwells within you and will never leave you alone. You forget easily, especially when things are calm and going your way. Jesus is here but he’s asleep. So, you wake him up. It’s simple, you just wake him up. “Jesus wake up!” He wakes and rises, the storm falls apart and the wind becomes a whisper. He calms the storms within and without. All you said was, “Jesus wake up, please, wake up!” Sometimes I say, “Come Lord Jesus.” You think to yourself, “I’ve got to remember that Jesus is in the boat. I’m not alone. I’ve got to remember to wake him up.” I wonder if you will. I wonder if I will remember that Jesus is in the boat the next time it storms.