Keep your eyes on Jesus

In Bible study today we discussed Mathew 14:22-33. In these versus it describes the situation where Peter and the other disciples were caught in a storm. Jesus appeared to them, they thought he was a ghost initially and were afraid. Jesus told them not to fear because he was their Lord. Peter spoke up and engaged in conversation with Jesus. To sum these versus up, Jesus told Peter to walk across the water (in the midst of a wind storm). Peter had faith and did just that, but began to sink.

We discussed why Peter began to sink. We came to the conclusion that he began to sink because he began to doubt the power of the Lord. He started focusing on the circumstances around him (the wind) and not on Jesus. Peter neglected to keep his eyes on Jesus, thus began to sink.

We are so like Peter in many ways. As Christians we focus on Jesus for a period of time and then we begin to lose sight of him in our current circumstances. We think that we can handle them on our own....and just like Peter we begin to sink when we begin to have these thoughts.

Thought of the day: Keep your eyes on Jesus.