Powerful Sea
Living on the coast I am constantly awed by the beauty, power and often unpredictability of the sea.
Jesus spent a lot of time around the Sea of Galilee (ok it's a lake, I know but…). He called his first disciples from their fishing nets by it, he calmed it, walked on it, taught from it, fed a multitude with the bounty of it, slept whilst the disciples panicked on it. Everywhere He went along its banks people were drawn to Him – why?
I wonder if like the sea itself it is His beauty, power and often unpredictability.
Beauty is wonderful to behold. It is also in the eye of the beholder. What you and I find beautiful will differ greatly and people seldom see their true beauty as others do. When the sea sparkles with the azure blue of summer it is reflecting the sun and sky above, when it is unpolluted by the debris of our lives its clarity reveals the life within.
Power is sometimes seen as a negative trait. Power hungry politicians and conglomerates are portrayed in almost comic fashion within some elements of the media. But Jesus instructs his disciples to wait to act until they are clothed with power from above. To live our lives as Disciples of Christ we need the power of the Holy Spirit working in and through us. Its Gods power though, not ours, so we cannot go running ahead without His leading, we are the channels through which it flows.
The Pharisees distrusted Jesus partly because he was unpredictable, he didn't do things in the way he was expected to. He didn't conform to the ways of this world but he submitted to his father's will - even to death.
So when we ask "what would Jesus do?" What do we do?
Waves sometimes break just when you least expect them to, let's be beautifully and powerfully unpredictable today with the generosity of Gods love to all the people we meet.
Sally Williams
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