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weather.”—“ Christians are like tea; their real strength is not brought out until they get into hot water.” v. 36. Took him as he was. “ Their Lord who is ever girded for service even at the midnight hour, needs no preliminary delays, neither can he brook them.”—Crawford. Other little ships. “Ah, hapless little ships with no Christ aboard.”—Crawford. v. 37. There arose a great storm. “ God’s storm can only help God’s business.”— “ Much depends on the way we come into a storm. Paul and Jonah were both in a storm, but the circumstances were very dif ferent. One was in the Lord’s w ill; the other was out o f it.”—“ One may boldly put to sea in Christ’s company, yea, though they foresee a storm.”—Henry. “It is not the water outside the ship that sinks it; it is the water that gets inside.”—Seeker. v. 38. H e was in the hinder part asleep. “ His humanity was, in all respects real.”— “ Could God’s counsels have failed because o f an unexpected storm? Impossible! The disciples were in the same boat with Jesus. In all difficulties o f the Christian life, we are in the same boat with Him, if we are doing His will.”—Gaebelein. “ If Ghrist’s Cross is tfie Christians’, then too, should His soft pillow be theirs.”—Crawford. “ He sleeps; therefore all is well. This is the logic o f the Holy Ghost.” W e perish. “A near Christ and a far-off Christian. What sorrow like that sorrow ?” —Crawford. ■“ Don’t throw stones at the disciples. You’ve caught yourself thinking Christ was unmindful o f your trials.”— McNeill. v. 39. Rebuked the wind. “The man who had been sleeping the sleep o f human exhaustion arises and commands the ele ments. If the writer invented this story, we are in the presence o f a stupendous miracle. Deity and humanity meet in Christ.”—Farr. “ He would not rebuke the work o f His Father. It was Satan’s supreme effort to drown Christ and all His dis
ciples. Only a person can be rebuked.” “ He is the pacifier o f tumults without and within.” Peace be still. “ Blest storm ; blest voyage. May such a benediction o f peace rest upon all God’s lonely ones far out on the high seas, battling against storm and wind and tide.”—Crawford. v. 40. Why so fearful? “ There is never a sufficient reason for a disciple o f Christ being fearful. John 14:1, 27.”-^Torrey. “ To faith, the trumpeting o f the hurricane is God’s glorious orchestra.” — Crawford. “ Fear can give no reasonable account o f itself when looking into the face o f Christ.” —McNeill. ,, “There are 36S FEAR NOTS in the Bible, one for every day in the year.” —Garry. “ Fear is unbelief parading in disguise.” “The beginning o f anxiety is the end o f faith.” “W e may be at our wit’s end, but we need hot be at faith’s end.” “ Give us a faith that will not worry, whine or wrangle, but will watch, work, wait, win and warble.” v. 41. Feared exceedingly. “The disciples had seen his power over demons and dis ease, but this power over wind and wave was new to them, and it was a miracle, which as fishermen, they could appreciate.” —Plummer. S:13. Spirits entered swine. “Two thousand swine are suffocated for the sav ing o f one human being.”—Bede. “This proof that the spirits had left the man may have been necessary to assure both »him and the people that he had been not merely quieted, but permanently cured.” “ Satan’s dominion and power cannot be conquered by the effort o f man. The world is still in the thralldom o f Satan, and the Lord Jesus is still the same.”—Gaebelein. v. 19. Go home and tell. “A converted man’s testimony should begin in his Own home and with his own friends.”—Torrey. “The next thing to knowing we have found him is to find someone else and say—come and see.”—“ Go and tell”—the lips. Luke 8:39 says, “ Go and show”—the life.
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