This week, we continue with part two of our series “fearLESS: revisited".
If we allow it, fear will follow us everywhere we go. Fear has a tendency to sneak up on us when we least expect it. It can quickly cause us to turn our focus away from God's promises, and onto to the distractions that are so often thrown out in front of us.
This week, we look at Mark chapter 4 and the account of Jesus calming a dangerous storm as He and His disciples sail across the sea of Galilee.
It seems like no matter what we are going through, and no matter how close we may be to Jesus, if we let our guard down, we are still susceptible to fear.
Mark 4:35-41 "On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”