My God is..

Its in the roughest storms that I will lift my heart and voice to praise His worthy name.
Matt 8: 23, Mark 4: 35, Luke8:22
When Jesus was asleep on the boat with his disciples and the storm came, the disciples were sooo scared and woke Jesus up.

In Matthew (NIV),
The disciples said: Lord save us! We are going to drown! Lord replied: You of little faith, why are you so afraid?
Then he rebuked the winds & waves and it was completely calm

In Mark (NIV),
The disciples said: Teacher dont you care if we drown?
Jesus rebuked the winds & said to the waves, "Quiet! Be Still!
Jesus said: Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?
*in KJV it says...how is it that ye has no faith*

In Luke (NIV)
The disciples said: Master Master! We are going to drown!
Jesus rebuked the winds & waves
Jesus said: Where is your faith?

Id say everyone was there at the same place and same time..this isnt 3 sepreate incidents. So if thats true, then why in the world do the 3 books have 3 different replies?
It hit me that 3 different people could have written these 3 books and for this same situation, these 3 people had different thoughts and levels of faith. They all cried for Jesus to wake up but did it in different ways..and with different levels of faith..Jesus answered it differently.

Note that the one in Matthew shows that the disciples asked God for help. God woke up and called them people of little faith. In Mark, the disciples asked Jesus for help but in it, vaguely accused Jesus of not caring for them. Jesus asked them, "do you still have no faith?"
In Luke, Jesus said, "where is your faith?"

To be honest, Im not the kind who would accuse Jesus for anything...because i know He sis never wrong. Not tot he point of saying he doesnt care coz He cares for me. But I know I could be like the disciple who says, "Master master Im drowning!" who is in deep shit and calling on to Him.
Note also that the disciples call Him in different ways...amybe according to the way they regard Him best?

But eh best thing about this story..is that no matter how they looked at Him, He still came in and calmed the storms. Albeit that He scolded them after that..but he still did it.

Even when teh disciples in Matthew called out to Jesus for help and called Him Lord, Jesus still said they had little faith. So what exactly does Jesus want us to do? How are we supposed to react to it? Somehow I had the impression that Jesus calling them "little faithed" was because they believed that they would drown....Asking Him for help isnt a bad thing right. So its more of asking Him for help, yet believeing that we are drowning and that Jesus couldnt calm teh storms. Coz they sure seemed shocked when he calmed the storm.
So what would have been the best thing to say? Lord, help us to calm this storm. Or was Jesus expecting what Simon Peter later did? Believing that Jesus is the Christ and healing people in His name. Acts 3: 6

Like the blind faith of Peter..that would ahve been enough for any faith-filled disciple to do what Jesus did...calm the storm.

And I in my roughest times..feel like the one who is in a boat..rocked till it seems we could all capsize and drown...and having the Holy Spirit and Jesus reassurance that I am a righteous child of God...that I could even calm my storm...How beautiful is that?

Yet nothing could beat the fact that...regardless of our faith in Him...He still saves us from our storm...

:)

I also rememebr the feeding of 5000. How teh disciples had sooo little faith in Jesus feeding the 5000. They looked at the magnitude of the problem and their lack of funds and deemed it impossible to feed the whole crowd. But my Lord is blessed the food and distributed it out as if it was enough and the mere handful of loaves and fish multiplied in the basket until eveyrone had enough to eat and to spare!

I hope you feel the gladness Im feeling now.

God Bless