Faith Opposes Fear

"Why are you so fearful?
How is it that you have no faith?"
Mark 4:40

Jesus said to the disciples, "Let us cross over
to the other side,"

So they got into the boat to go across the sea.
A great storm arose and the waves began to
fill the boat.
All the while, Jesus was asleep in the back.
The disciples came to Him and said,
"Teacher, do You not care that we are
perishing?"

Jesus arose and rebuked the wind and said
to the sea, "Peace, be still!"
There was a great calm.
Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said,
"Why are you so fearful? How is it that you
have no faith."
Matthew 8:23 says, O you of little faith!

Faith is the opposite of fear.
The disciples were full of fear and had no
faith.
Jesus was full of faith and had no fear.

We see the faith of Jesus when He told them
to go over to the other side of the sea.
He had every expectation that what He said
would happen and that they would make it
safely to the other side.
He remained asleep and the storm didn't
move Him one bit.
He had no fear, only faith and so He was at
peace even in the middle of it.

But not the disciples. Even after being with
Jesus for a long time, listening to Him teach
and preach, watching Him heal people and
cast out demons.

They had just spent the whole day with Him
as He taught parables of the Kingdom of God.
So how was it that their faith was so small at
this moment? Fear!
The disciples hadn't dealt with their fear and
fear is the enemy of faith.