MASTER DO YOU NOT CARE.

One mat want to liken the response of Jesus in our life situations as something of a slow pace and which is not commensurate with a caring and protecting saviour,when we consider that he allows this temptations and tragedies to come close to those who have reposed faith in him.
Why will God, allow his disciples become sick and impoverished only to be scorned by illness, before he raises this person to sound health of mind and body? Will it not be more heroic if sickness does not come close to this child of God? The situation of the Job of scripture, to a large extent explains what dilemma the righteous or Christian faces in the face of temptations that threaten faith.
In the Gospel according to Mark [4:35-41], we witness Jesus who embarked on a journey with the disciples. The Journey was a dangerous one since they were traveling on sea which is fraught with many dangers arising from the conceptions of the forces that plaque and dominate the waters. Not only that we have the outbreak of a mighty wave which already was sinking the boat and created scenario of great fright. But the surprising aspect of this account is that while all this readily come from the lips of many one, was Jesus insensitivity to the plight of these disciples of his?
Or was he faced with the human dimension that he could not sublimate into his divinity to recognize a threatening natural disaster.
These are not the true meaning or lessons we will derive from this gospel, otherwise why will Jesus after they had woken him rebuke their lack of faith. To put it straight, the seeming silence or what we might call his sleeping is the interlude to determine the faith commitment and orientations of the disciples in the face of the problems of life. Ones faith cannot be determined on the corridor of convenience but on the alter of difficulties and problems of life. In the case of the disciples, they called upon Jesus and demonstrated their faith in him when they said “master do you not care”.
I will want to think that, this dimension of faith is always required of us in our faith encounter and in the face of the problems of life. It is the recourse to Jesus who has absolute power to conquer and overthrow whatever dominion of evil that lies hidden in our world. The Christian must discover in Jesus the sovergnity to every form of darkness. This is principally the surprise of the disciples when in secret they questioned where he got the authority over forces of nature etc.
To every created individual, we must cross the sea of life and this goes a long way with frightening and threatening situations that we see around them. But what gives us the courage is that we have a master who is with us in the boat of life and he reclines quietly to see our response to him in the face of threats of life. Therefore let us take the courage and wake him up to the consciousness of whatever plaques us at any time.