27d • General discussion
Perception
In Mark 4, the disciples are in a storm, and they cry out:
“Teacher, don’t you care that we are perishing?”
They called Him Teacher
because that’s who they knew Him to be.
They had heard Him teach.
They had followed Him.
They had seen glimpses of His power…
But in that moment,
they responded to Him based on their current understanding of Him.
Not His fullness.
And as I read that this morning, I couldn’t help but wonder, What if they had known Him
as the One the winds and seas obey and not just Teacher.
Would they have feared the storm the same way?
We don’t usually say out loud God is limited. But, we often relate to Him through the lens of what we’ve experienced. When we do that, we quietly decide who He gets to be in our life.
We know Him as Teacher… but not yet Lord over this….Faithful… but not here.
Able… but will He now?
And fear is often born right there—
in the gap between who He is
and who we’ve known Him to be.
We don’t fear because God is lacking. We fear because our knowing of Him is still growing.
I think there is an invitation here.
To move beyond:
what we’ve seen…
what we’ve experienced…
what has or hasn’t happened yet…
And begin to behold Him as He is.
Not reduced or filtered.
Not shaped by past outcomes, mindsets, or misconceptions.
But fully-know Him, see Him as He is.
Because He is not becoming more powerful—
He has always been the One
the winds and seas obey.
And maybe…the storm isn’t revealing His limits. Just maybe, it’s revealing where we’re still learning who He truly is.
Jesus, help us to see you as you are and not guided or governed by our own limitations. Amen!
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