Daily Bible Reading 10th July 2026 // Luke 8:22-25
22 One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out, 23 and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. 24 And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. 25 He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marvelled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
To continue the thought of the previous Note: the disorder and chaos of a fallen creation brought into harmony by a word of command - the Christ Whose almighty Word in the beginning 'chaos and darkness heard and took their flight' one day - a great, glad day - speaking the word of power to renew and restore the created order. This takes us right into the Pauline theology expressed in Colossians 1, where the apostle speaks of the 'reconciliation of all things' - not merely mankind, but the universe, in a cosmic redemption great beyond all telling and imagining, through the death of the Cross. It is because this is true that we can safely apply it as an illustration of what He can do with all the storms of life, of whatever kind. There are the disorders caused by sin in our own little world - in which elements in our constitution, God-given and made by His hand, have reared up and got out of control, to cause disturbance and dislocation. These are storms that the mighty Christ can still, and does, when we call upon His name. There are the storms of life caused by others, by the fact that they themselves are disordered, or that belong to the essential mystery of things, and for which there is no human explanation. These also are storms which Christ can control, rebuke and still. But we may also legitimately apply the story as a token and picture of what Jesus came to do to the greatest storm of all, the storm stirred by the revolt of man against God, the storm whose first ominous rumblings began over the Garden of Eden and came to its awesome climax in the rending of the rocks and the thunderings around the hill of Calvary. And what faith sees there is the mighty Son of God lifted up from the earth, the great Master of the storm, towering over the storm of divine wrath, with hands outstretched over a world's need, speaking, in the precious blood He shed the all-prevailing word: 'Peace be still' - to the guilty hearts of men and to the holy heart of God, so making peace. Wonderful, wonderful Peacemaker!