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“Where is your faith?”             “One day He got into a boat with His disciples and said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side of the lake.’ So they set out. And as they were sailing along, Jesus fell asleep. And a fierce windstorm came down on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in danger. They went and woke Him, saying, ‘Master, Master, we are perishing!’ And He awoke and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. And He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ And they were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, ‘Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?’” ( Luke 8:22–25 )       (1)    Today, based on the passage in Luke 8:22–25, I would like to meditate on several points from the story of Jesus calming the sea (the fierce storm) in connection with Matthew 8:23–27 and Mark 4:35–41 , and receive the lessons that...

  A man whose faith comes through Jesus       [Acts 3:11-16]     Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford once said, ‘Christ carries the wind.   God has placed you beside Christ, facing the same direction as Christ.   Therefore, you cannot expect a sheltered, windless spot on the mountainside.’   In this statement, it implies that just as we walk in the same direction as Christ, we too must live carrying the wind. In other words, we cannot move forward without facing resistance (Tozer).   However, human instinct longs for the sheltered, windless spot on the mountainside.   Pastor Tozer stated in his book "That Incredible Christian" regarding 'true faith' and 'false faith': ‘A person with genuine faith does not shy away from any suffering in order to partake in Christ's victory.   On the other hand, a person with counterfeit faith is only certain of wanting no part of the wind, but desiring the sheltered, windless spot o...