Eyes on Jesus

The past month has been crazy busy.  There have also been lots of attacks from the evil one on our family....  Guess we must be headed in the right direction!!

While I am reading through the Bible this year chronologically I was missing the New Testament...  okay, I am a dork.  So I decided to play some Holy Hopscotch.  (For those who are unfamiliar with this - it is simply reading random passages with no plan....  not recommended as you will miss so much!).

In Matthew 14, there is the story of Jesus walking on the water during a extremely windy times (a storm??).  As I have been meditating on this it occurred to me Jesus did NOT calm the storm.  He reached out His hand to Peter and said, "Come." 

Peter then was able to choose to obey or disobey.  When Peter choose obedience, he was able to walk toward Jesus. 

But Peter took his eyes off of Jesus in the middle of the storm (how often do I do the same thing??)

Then Peter cries out "JESUS!!"  (yep, I do that too!!)

As He always will - Jesus reached out His hand and caught Peter.  There is a part of me that wonders if standing there on the water - Jesus, knowing Peter's fear and wanting to comfort him, gave Peter a great big hug....

When they were back in the boat then the winds died down.  Did they die down because Peter felt safe and knew where his strength was?  Did they die down because Peter was obedient?   Did they die down because every storm runs out of rain?  Storms will end and, at some point, another one will come along.

God NEVER promised us this life would be easy.  He does promise us to walk beside us and there amazing rewards spending eternity with Him.

God is great and He is on the throne.