THE APOSTLES MARVEL AT JESUS' POWER

Hi everyone...pause long enough to marvel at the glory of your ever-present God.  Put your feelings of awe into words of worship.

THE APOSTLES MARVEL AT JESUS' POWER

Matt. 8:17  The men were amazed, and said, "What kind of a man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"

There are no realities more overwhelming than a glimpse of God's glory and the sense of His presence.  Such occurrences make it impossible to be utterly dumbfounded before Him.

The disciples realized after Christ stilled the storm that He indeed was God standing in their boat with them.  Peter displayed the same reaction of awe and terror when he briefly walked on water after his Lord did.  A storm surged up and caused Peter to panic.  When Jesus rescued the disciples and calmed the storm, all the disciples in the boat worshipped Him saying, "You are certainly God's Son.!"  (Matt. 14:33).  That is simply the proper reaction any believer should have when getting a first glimpse of the Lord's power in this world.

God's servants in Scripture had far more astounding encounters with His magnificence than we ever will, but their examples are instructive.  Daniel, for example, after beholding the Almighty, remarked, "No strength was left in me, for my natural color turned to a deathly pallor" (Dan. 10:8; Isa. 6:1, 5).  When the risen Christ halted Paul (Saul of Tarsus) on his way to Damascus, "he fell to the ground" (Acts 9:4).

Our daily dependence on God and sense of His presence should be no less important for us than for the prophets and apostles of old.  Isaac Watt's lyrics capture this concept well:

On thee each moment we depend,
If thou withdraw we die.
O may we ne'er that God offend,
Who is forever nigh.

more to come...