He IS Greater than.......

Matthew 14;30-31 (KJV)

But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying Lord, save me.
And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

The Webster's II New College Dictionary, 1995 edition, lists a distraction as:
1. The act of distracting or state of being distracted. 2. Something that distracts, esp. an amusement: DIVERSION. 3. Mental or emotional confusion or disturbance.

The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1995 edition, translates the word 'wind' (in the Greek) as:
anemos [an'-em-os] wind; (plural) by implication (the four) quarters (of the earth). The base of this word is, aer [ah-ayr'] to blow unconsciously, i.e. respire, by analogy to blow.



BOLD STATEMENT: We only get distracted, from our total completion of God's will for our life, when we deem the certain situation (in which we find ourselves; at whatever time we are inside of them) to be GREATER than God.


This encouragement, today, is for all my Brothers and Sister, who are suffering from the same condition I suffer from: from time to time. The ironic part about us suffering from it is that we already have a great example of the administration of an antidote. But, we seem to not "want" to trust that it will work for our particular situation. So, we begin to mix together our own blend of remedy; which doesn't seem to cure, no matter how many different concoctions we whip up. We ain't chemists!!!!!

This portion of the events in which Peter walked on water, to get to where Jesus was at, gives us a gigantic picture of Faith, but at the same time it shows us how we do, sometimes, allow for a tiny distraction to be processed as being GREATER than God: Christ Jesus. Again, go back to the text and we will see that this wind, this distraction, to Peter was quite fierce. The Bible describes the wind as boisterous. I do not know about you, but the word just illicts thoughts of distraction. Now, what must be quickly spoken is that Peter was walking on the water due, only, to the Power of Christ Jesus. Okay, I will say it like this, "You were, only, able to get past that last break up due to the Power of Christ Jesus." Does it register now?

Why then do we allow for these tiny, minuscule portion of a distraction to come along and allow it to lie to us? No, seriously, WHY? Answer the question, and I am sure you (if you hold the answer in your memory) just might be able to not repeat that same "cry" for help that Peter cried out to receive from Christ Jesus.

Re-read this passage, Matthew 14;22-33, and then search out, within your life, those times when you know the distractions couldn't, or shouldn't have been able to detour you from reaching Christ Jesus. That way you will have a current, active, pattern of thought that continuously repeats, "He IS Greater than....."


Holla,
Yer Brova Catalyst