Avec Jésus dans le bateau…
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Thank you very much for the comments on welcoming Son 1 back home. I’ve made a few comments on your comments… Wife and I are going to discuss the different suggestions that you made and then fly out the lucky winner. So please don’t make plans, at least any plans you can’t change, for the next few weeks.
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Our Sunday text was Mark 4.35-41. It’s the disciples’ story where Jesus is sleeping in the boat at the same time it’s filling up with water, beaten by winds and waves.
I found 5 hymns in our French song book that deal with Jesus and this miracle (not counting a children’s song). Most are about turning to Jesus when life gets tough. Or just realizing that he’s in the boat with you and so, in the end, all will be okay. A couple poeticize about crying out to Jesus to save us in those difficult times.
But I’m confronted by the text, for in the middle of it stands Jesus’ reproach of the lost-faith-no-faith disciples, a correction that takes place specifically because in their doubt, or because of their doubt, they woke him up. Which leaves us to wonder if they wouldn’t have been more “faithful” to just let Jesus rest and simply ride out the storm in his sleeping presence.
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Our Sunday text was Mark 4.35-41. It’s the disciples’ story where Jesus is sleeping in the boat at the same time it’s filling up with water, beaten by winds and waves.
I found 5 hymns in our French song book that deal with Jesus and this miracle (not counting a children’s song). Most are about turning to Jesus when life gets tough. Or just realizing that he’s in the boat with you and so, in the end, all will be okay. A couple poeticize about crying out to Jesus to save us in those difficult times.
But I’m confronted by the text, for in the middle of it stands Jesus’ reproach of the lost-faith-no-faith disciples, a correction that takes place specifically because in their doubt, or because of their doubt, they woke him up. Which leaves us to wonder if they wouldn’t have been more “faithful” to just let Jesus rest and simply ride out the storm in his sleeping presence.
