Choose to do gods will- his grace his sufficient.
When we choose to follow his will, then his grace will overcome everything and he will give power through holy spirit to accomplish it. But our trust in him and faithfulness towards him is very important to succeed the mission.
Mother Mary surrendered in faith to gods mission. She got power by overshadow of holy spirit.she trusted and believed in gods word and signs
Jesus walking on water:
In this gospel we see the maturing of an apostle. Jesus as a foretaste of his passing away ,departed from disciples and went to pray sending them on boat alone. He knew that a storm will hit them. He was praying for them to father. The storm hit the boat and disciples were alone. They were scared and called out. Jesus as foretaste and of resurrected state, walks on water. Peter saw him and disciples didn't recognize him. But Jesus revealed not to be scared it's him...peter tried to test the truth (gospel) and took courage to walk on water . It's the first experience of Jesus power and he walks in excitement...he looks Jesus and walks and forgets all worldly challenges. He enjoyed his first step in courage tasting Jesus...after sometime peter began to loose his focus and his thoughts began to wander to world.. slowly he lost focus on Jesus and began to sink.
He realized soon he is sinking and he is loosing that faith,the previous trust and commitment to Jesus. He began to cry out....
This us the second phase of maturing of a Christ follower... Christ stretch out his hands and catch hold on peters hand.. telling y did u doubt..
Where is your faith?
The entire incident was given as foretaste of Jesus departing from then, resurrection and then catching them hold by hand of holy spirit the strength of God to pull out from this world. By his power..
When holy spirit come you will get power to conquer flesh and witness Jesus in perfect love..
All that happens in this world, lord will transform it for our good...as a training to get stronger in faith and crush the flesh by spirit and transform each moment to spiritual realm of life.
Lord says to us"with men it us impossible but not for God, for God everything is possible" we are weak but our desire for his will to be accomplished in us will flow grace into us by our faith and our weaknesses will be overpowered by his grace to Jump up the wall and climb up the high mountains not by our power but by his grace through our faith.
Let us pray,
Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.
From the end of the earth I call to you,
when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I;
for you are my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.Let me abide in your tent forever, find refuge under the shelter of your wings
Psalms 61:1-4
