We like to allegorize this story and apply it to our walks of faith. Have you ever walked on water? I mean literally. And Jesus called him a person of little faith. Only when he was out away from the boat and became fearful of the waves did he become frightened and doubt. He was the only disciple to request of Jesus and to get out of the boat and to walk on the water with Jesus. It caught my attention as I read this time that Peter believed Jesus when He declared His identity, and he got out of the boat and walked on the water to meet Jesus. But seeing the wind, he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” When they got into the boat, the wind stopped. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take courage, it is I do not be afraid.” Peter said to Him, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” And He said, “Come!” And Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus. When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out in fear. And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea. But the boat was already a long distance from the land, battered by the waves for the wind was contrary. After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray and when it was evening, He was there alone. Immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He sent the crowds away. In the midst of the storm, He walked out on the sea to reach the boat where His disciples were, and they were afraid: You are afraid I will wreck the car, again? Oh ye of little faith.īut this week I was reading the story of Jesus walking on the water.
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You do not think I can get ready in time? Oh ye of little faith. You are afraid to jump off the diving board? Oh ye of little faith. (My father still reads the King James Version, and most verses I memorized as a child were in Old English). But as a child and youth, it certainly served its purpose of helping maintain a healthy fear of God and keeping His statutes! And, of course, it was a good way to taunt my sisters.īut one phrase of Jesus that we, as a family, would often quote to one another and with which we would tease was “Oh ye of little faith”. One of us picked up a song put to the melody of “Frere Jacques” from Rev 21.8: Revelation, Revelation, Twenty-one eight, twenty-one eight, Liars go to Hell, liars go to Hell, Burn, burn, burn. We became so familiar with stories and verses that we would joke Scripture to each other.
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My parents were both raised in the church, we read the Bible together as a family every night after dinner, we were at church “every time the doors were open” and Bible stories/doctrine were common conversation.