Maybe We Had Better Wake Up Jesus

This Sunday's Gospel reading is Mark 4:35-41 in which Jesus stills a storm,

"On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’"

Jesus' followers waited until they were almost lost before they turned to Jesus to save them.

Why do we wait until we are at the end of our ropes before we ask Jesus to save us?

Pride?

Arrogance?

Are there times when you told God, "I've got this", and set your sails without him?

How did that work out for you?