JESUS ASKS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

From today's LifeJournal reading schedule:

Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out. But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger. They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Luke 8:22-25

Jesus’ question, “WHERE is your faith?”, suggests their having faith was not in question.  Rather, where their faith was placed was the issue.  

Faith is the belief and confidence we have in something we can’t see or know for certain about based on things we can see or know for certain about.  For example, we have faith the sun will rise tomorrow because it always has in the past.  Or, we have faith God will be with us in whatever the future holds because He has promised to do so and He has always been with us in past situations.

The question Jesus asked his disciples here suggests they had their faith about their physical safety in something else other than Him.  Perhaps it was in hopes of good weather, their navigating abilities, the strength of their ship, etc.  Whatever their faith was in, it wasn’t in Jesus, and they were feeling terrified.

So, the same question to us: Where is your faith?  It’s a question we should consider when our seas are calm, so that when our storms come we have our faith already placed in what will never fail us.