One thing follows another, just as evening follows day. It was time to leave the party, and the disciples were having trouble waiting for Jesus, the straggler. They were warming up the boat, waiting.

When that storm hits and those disciples are tossing in the wind, they are struck with mortal terror. Their lives are facing early punctuation. What do you think is going through their heads?

Of course there’s fear, maybe some sadness about the things they will miss. Maybe regret for things done or not done.

Like most people in trouble, they were almost certainly looking for someone to blame. Who do you think the disciples were blaming? God, for sending the storm? Whichever disciple said they should get into the boat? Jesus, for holding up their trip?

Whatever was going through their heads, Jesus stands above the waters, above the winds and waves of fear and blame. He says “I Am.” More than a deep existential fortune cookie, Jesus is showing his true identity: God, the Great I Am, the complete and ultimate being.

By Chris Suehr from D365