Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

-Mark 4:38, NIV

“Don’t you care?!”

Tomorrow, I am preaching from this passage. It is the passage in Mark where Jesus and his disciples are crossing storm tossed waters (see Mark 4:35-41).

Jesus is found sleeping while the disciples are in a state of panic. They think they are about to all drown. Jesus wakes up rebukes the storm, it calms, and then he rebukes his disciples for a lack of faith.

Epic story.

I don’t know about you, but I relate to those disciples. It is hard to have faith sometimes when a very real storm threatens our lives and well-being.

My heart cry sometimes is: “Do you care?!”

I believe one of the lessons of this story is that God does care. In fact, it is ridiculous to think otherwise.

Over and over, I have seen God show up in my life when I struggled with this question about Him. God cares. He cares very, very much!

The question really is whether we are willing to have a little faith and trust Him with our storm (and our hearts). I assure you; it is worth it.

 

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*A version ran previously. Still true: God cares about us VERY much!