Who can this be?

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.  And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8: 9 - 11 NKJV

Oh what power, He who raised Christ from the grave that wonderful morning.  For it was He also who not only spoke all that is seen into existance, but also gave life and breath to our mortal bodies.  As scripture tells us, "With God all things are possible."  Yet, there are those times when we give in to our doubts and mistakingly believe that there is a situation which even God cannot overcome.  It is then that we utter our words of uncertainty, "Lord, if you will."  Where is our confidence?  Is He who raised Christ from the dead so powerless that He cannot walk us through whatever it is we are facing?  At times, we may feel as much.  I have often heard many a pulpit pounder make the claim that our heavenly Father delights in providing for His children.  I am inclined to agree with this statement.  For we already know that God loved us enough that while we were still in our sin condition, that Christ Jesus gave Himself that we might be free {Romans 5:8}.  Did our Lords love and mercy suddenly end with the death and resurection of Christ, certainly not.  For we are told that our Lord is love {1 John 4:8}.  It is because of His love in which we who have known  Christ Jesus have indeed been freed from the sin which we once walked.  Now, then, what is it that we might be facing which is too hard for Jesus to overcome?  Is anything impossible for Him?

Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was.  And other little boats were also with Him.  And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling.  But He was in the stern asleep on a pillow.  And they awoke Him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"  Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!"  And the wind ceased and there was great calm.  But He said to them, "Why are you so fearful?  How is it that you have no faith?"  And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!"
Mark 4: 36 - 41 NKJV

Who indeed!  Imagine the fear which gripped the disciples as they were tossed about on the sea of Galilee that day.  Keep in mind that many of these men were fishermen who made their living on the very waters on which they were now being tossed about.  I am inclined to think that perhaps this storm which they now found themselves may have been stronger than any they had seen before.  Judging by the reaction of these fishermen, it must have been quite a squall.  Growing up in Minnesota on the shores of Lake Superior, I have been witness to some violent weather on that inland sea.  The lake itself has claimed 350 shipwrecks with over 1,000 lives lost over the years.  The most famous of these came on the night of November 9, 1975 with the sinking of the 728 foot steamer Edmund Fitzgerald.  The "Pride of the American side" is now entombed in 530 feet of water merely 17 miles from the safety of Whitefish Bay.   One may indeed wonder, was the storm which claimed the Fitzgerald and her 29 man crew of the same magnitude of the one which Jesus and His disciples found themselves in that day on the sea of Galilee?  Of course, we'll never know that answer, but we are told that the disciples, these fishermen, feared for their lives.  Where was Jesus while this was going down?  Asleep, in the back of the boat.  Of course, once awakened, Jesus shows zero sign of the fear which gripped his friends as He calmly spoke the wind and waves into silence.  His message to His disciples?  "How is it that you have no faith?"  The fear which now gripped the disciples was now not due to the weather, but that this man could speak calm unto the wind and waves which ony moments before had been on the verge of sinking their boat!  "Who can this be?"  And so, as we walk through each day with Christ Jesus {Galations 2:20}, what is it that we fear most?  Is it weather, finances or relationships?  Is Jesus too far removed to walk us through what we are facing?  He who gave loved us enough to give Himself that we might be saved.  Who can this be?

~Scott~