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    This document discusses a Bible passage where Jesus calms a storm that arises as he and his disciples are crossing a lake in a boat. It uses this story as an analogy for the storms and difficulties that arise in life, like the current COVID-19 pandemic. It makes three key points: 1) Following Jesus does not mean we will avoid troubles - life will still have storms. 2) These storms often come unexpectedly, like Hurricane Katrina. 3) When sailing through life's storms with Jesus, we do not need to be afraid but rather put our trust in him, as he was able to calm the storm in the Bible story. The passage encourages putting faith in God during the current global crisis.

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    This document discusses a Bible passage where Jesus calms a storm that arises as he and his disciples are crossing a lake in a boat. It uses this story as an analogy for the storms and difficulties that arise in life, like the current COVID-19 pandemic. It makes three key points: 1) Following Jesus does not mean we will avoid troubles - life will still have storms. 2) These storms often come unexpectedly, like Hurricane Katrina. 3) When sailing through life's storms with Jesus, we do not need to be afraid but rather put our trust in him, as he was able to calm the storm in the Bible story. The passage encourages putting faith in God during the current global crisis.

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    This document discusses a Bible passage where Jesus calms a storm that arises as he and his disciples are crossing a lake in a boat. It uses this story as an analogy for the storms and difficulties that arise in life, like the current COVID-19 pandemic. It makes three key points: 1) Following Jesus does not mean we will avoid troubles - life will still have storms. 2) These storms often come unexpectedly, like Hurricane Katrina. 3) When sailing through life's storms with Jesus, we do not need to be afraid but rather put our trust in him, as he was able to calm the storm in the Bible story. The passage encourages putting faith in God during the current global crisis.

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    THE COVID19 STORM

    Matt 8:23-26 _ 23 Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. 24 Without warning, a
    furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 25
    The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" 26 He replied, "You of
    little faith, why are you so afraid?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was
    completely calm.

    This text tells a story when the disciples encountered a furious storm on the sea of Galilee with the Lord
    Jesus. The story tells of a literal storm; but I think we may draw some truths or principles about the
    figurative storms – the troubles, the problems, the challenges – that come our way. Consider the
    following.

    One, following Jesus doesn’t always lead to a luxury cruise trip; following him may lead to “stormy”
    experiences. The disciples followed Jesus into the boat and then they were hit by a storm. Following
    Jesus doesn’t mean we won’t have to go through difficult circumstances in life. Following Jesus doesn’t
    mean troubles would shy away and won’t hit us anymore. So brace up, and be strong, because life will
    still be full of trouble.

    Two, “storms” come unexpectedly; they come without warning and we are caught unprepared. This is
    most true of course in the old days when they did not have the state of the art weather service we now
    have. Today we can track a storm as early as from it’s formation, and track its movement on an hourly
    basis. But even with the super advance weather tracking technology we now have, sometimes, we are
    still caught unprepared – the hurricane Katrina in the US and our very own super typhoon Yolanda are a
    case in point. In life, we are often hit by “super typhoons” and we are caught helplessly – big financial
    difficulties, deaths in the family, severe illnesses, broken relationships, and a whole lot more.

    Three, when sailing through a “storm” with Jesus, we need not be afraid, we only need to believe. Jesus
    wasn’t afraid of the storm; he was sleeping through the storm (which is kinna strange, a storm is raging
    around him but he was dozing, probably exhausted from a whole day of ministry). Not only he wasn’t
    afraid of the storm, Jesus stopped the storm, and everything was calm.

    Tropical storms usually begin to hit us in the Philippines beginning July or August. But early this year, a
    “storm” of different kind hit us. It’s COVID19. And we’ve not been hit by any storm like this before. It’s
    raging on a level we’ve not experienced before. And naturally we are frightened. We are terrified. We
    are scared. What if we contracted the virus? What if the quarantine is extended indefinitely? What if
    after this, we don’t have jobs to go back to? What if we don’t have enough money? What if we exhaust
    our savings? What if a cure is not developed? What if the government runs out of money? Where do we
    get food for the next meal?

    In times like these, it’s so easy to be afraid. And why not, we’re only beings who are hard wired to feel
    fear? But Jesus is teaching us to trust, to believe. Rick Warren says (not word for word, but in essence),
    when God wants to develop something in us, he places in the exact opposite life situation. So maybe,
    God has placed us in this very difficult situation, to teach us to trust some more in our Lord.

    And so in faith, we come to the Lord, and pray. And if we need to cry out, “Lord, we are drowning,
    HELLLLLLLP!”, then perhaps can do so in faith. He may not stop the storm so soon – as the quarantine is
    sure to go to an extension – but we should take comfort in the truth that “he is in the boat with us”. And
    we only need to believe.

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