Chapter 8

""And the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region."

In all superhero movies, there is always a constant theme of a group of people who are not afraid of what the superhero is fighting, but are afraid of what the superhero can do. Then later on, something always happens, and they beg the superhero to come and protect them, and the cycle begins again. Sadly, we have likened Jesus to such a "superhero". Many times in our lives, we cannot understand what is happening, we want to have the steering wheel control, but we do not know where we are going. When Jesus comes into our lives and tries to give us direction, our inherent human nature wants to fight to the death to have the reins of our bodies, yet we do not know who we are, where we're going, or why we're doing what we're doing presently.

Even the disciples had this same fear after Jesus calmed the storm with a single command. The difference between the disciples and us is that the disciples learned to trust him more, while we participate heavily in transactional faith, convenient Christianity, and situational faith. The interesting thing is this is our default nature, "dead in sin " as the bible puts it. We have to be intentional if we want to trust Jesus more and draw into His presence daily. Our secret place with Him has to be essential and consistent.

Our Prayer today is for Jesus to work in our hearts and minds. We pray that God you may place a longing for you in our hearts. We also pray that Jesus, you may teach us to trust you more, even when we do not understand what you are doing in our lives. Give us the strength to seek you daily. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

" May we learn how to trust Jesus more even in our uncertainties "