Don't Rock The Boat

In this Sunday's reading from Mark 4:35-41, Jesus calms a storm, saving his followers,

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?’

One of the best sermons I ever heard was during a Mere Anglicanism conference. The subject was Mark 4:35-41. To summarize the sermon, many of the disciples were fishermen who knew how to handle a boat in a storm. They probably tried everything they could to save themselves before giving up and going to Jesus for help. Aren't we just like them?