“He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, you of little faith?’ Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.” (v. 26)

You are already familiar with life’s storms. Not all of them, for you are bound to know storms you’ll never see coming. But you’ve seen some, for sure.

My guess is that you’re like me:

You’re desperate for Jesus to calm the storm, especially when you’re in the middle of it.

The good news is, yes, He can. The better news is, sometimes, He does. It’s a keen grace.

Yet the actual truth that anchors us—our ballast in the storms of life—is not the fact that Jesus can and sometimes does calm things down.

The good news is that He is with us.

You are in the boat with the Sovereign. You are in the boat with the One whose words rescue. You are in the boat with the One whose purposes do not fail—which means you are with the One who secures you, even when the storms aren’t stilled.

It’s why Jesus turned this moment into a lesson of faith, not power. When He is with you, the circumstances are back-seated by trust. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pray for His mercy. It means, ultimately, that you are secured by it already.

Have faith, even while the waves rise.

— Tyler