Making Headway Through the Winds
Have you ever struggled to make progress in life through difficulties and adversity? Have you ever felt alone in your struggles as you journey through life?
Oftentimes life can be challenging and difficult to navigate because of fallen creation and sin. The winds of adversity can blow relentlessly upon us as we journey along our way in life.
When the disciples were traveling across the Sea of Galilee after the feeding of the 5,000, they encountered a great storm on the sea that threatened to undo them. The relentless squall caused the disciples to struggle and to make little headway in the storm and against the wind.
The Gospel of Mark tells us, “Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them.” (Mark 6:45-48, ESV).
As a storm arose on the sea, the disciples struggled to navigate the turbulent waters as they rowed to their destination. The scripture tell us “that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them.”
Like these disciples, we can also experience “making headway painfully” as we journey on our way in life. However, with Jesus’ help we can find the calm we need in the storm and make it to our destination in life.
May we trust Jesus as we journey through life, even as we make headway painfully, and may we expect that Jesus will calm our storms and help us to our final destination.
A Collect for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, (Proper 12): “Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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