SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/26/2022 7:56 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1 “Proof of His Divine Love”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt 14:28-31
Message of the verses: “28 And Peter
answered Him and said, "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the
water." 29 And He said, "Come!" And Peter got out of the boat,
and walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But seeing the wind, he became afraid, and
beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" 31 And
immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and said to him,
"O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" 32 And when they got into
the boat, the wind stopped.”
In today’s SD we begin to look at the fourth proof
of Jesus’ deity and it is His demonstration of divine love. Although Mark and John report Jesus’ walking
on the water, only Matthew tells of this incident concerning Peter.
Let
us take a look at the word if as that is what we see Peter asking, and
MacArthur writes that this word “if did not reflect doubt that it was actually
his Lord, because going out onto the water to join an unidentified ghost was
the last thing Peter would have done. He
was naturally impetuous and brash, and more than once his overconfidence got
him into trouble—including trouble with the Lord. But it would have taken more than brashness
for this lifelong fisherman to have ventured out on the water without benefit
of a boat, because no one on board better knew the dangers of Galilee storms
than Peter. He had probably been thrown
into the water at times by high winds or waves and had seen others experience
the same trauma. He was no fool, and it
is highly unlikely that impetuosity would have so easily overridden his reason and
instinctive caution.”
So
the question is why did Peter ask Jesus if he could come to Him on the
water? Probably Peter was so overjoyed
to see Jesus because of all the trouble that they were going through with this
very bad storm that he just wanted to come to Him and was not concerned about
his safety because His Lord was out there walking on the water. Peter doubtless knew better than to just jump
out of the boat and come to Jesus, so he must ask Him if he could come to Him
on the water as he said, Command me to come to You on the water. Peter knew that Jesus had the power to enable
him to walk on the water, but he did not presume to attempt the feat without
His express instruction. MacArthur adds “Peter’s
request was an act of affection built on confident faith. He did not ask to walk on water for the sake
of doing something spectacular but because it was the way to get to Jesus.” I have to say that this logic kind of puts a different
perspective on this story than what my thoughts before were.
Well
it is Sunday morning and so my SD’s are shorter because of all that I do on
Sunday morning and so we will have to continue looking at what Peter did and
how the Lord saved him in our next SD.
6/26/2022 8:20 AM
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