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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Matthew 14:22-36
This scene of the ship in the midst of the tempest is a picture of the present position of the Lord’s redeemed. While He is there in heaven, absent but praying and interceding for them, they have to cross painfully the rough sea of this world. Morally it is night: the Enemy raising up the opposition of men, acts in the same way as the wind and the waves which almost defeat the efforts of the rowers. But does not the Lord Jesus come to meet His own? His well-known voice reassures the poor disciples. And faith, resting on His word "Come" carries Peter towards the One he loves. Suddenly his faith fails, and he sinks. What has happened? Peter has taken his eyes off his Master to look at the height of the waves and the violence of the wind – as if it were easier to walk on a calm rather than a troubled sea! But he cries to the Lord, who at once comes to his rescue.
Then the Lord Jesus is encountered in this country of Gennesaret out of which He had been driven on the occasion of the healing of the demoniacs (Matthew 8:34). This is a picture of the moment when His people, having rejected Him, will recognize Him, will render Him homage, and will be delivered by Him.
