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我们在风暴中所学到的功课，时常是我们在其他境遇中学不到的。在这个故事中，耶稣和祂的门徒乘一艘小渔船渡过加利利海。

门徒当中有些曾经是渔夫，他们一生中曾在这片水域度过相当多的时日。所以，从某个角度来看，他们是专家——而从小到大作为木匠儿子的耶稣，理当是由他们来照顾的。

然而，他们在这方面的专长却受到了考验。耶稣正在船尾睡觉时，突然起了大风暴，转眼间海浪便猛烈冲击船身和打入船内。这些渔夫晓得这个风暴非常危险，他们知道所有人都可能会被海浪淹没。

他们便叫醒了耶稣，说：“祢不顾吗？”耶稣醒来后，便立刻命令风和浪：“住了吧！静了吧！”海就平静了。门徒感到又敬佩又畏惧。“这到底是谁？连风和海也听从祂了。”

透过这个可怕的经历，门徒们清楚地看到耶稣是谁。在他们最熟识的生活范畴中，他们经历考验，耶稣让他们从中认识到祂是万有的主宰。生命中的风暴或许困扰我们的心灵，然而，透过这些经历，神却能让我们更清楚地认识祂自己。

Sometimes we learn something in a storm that we couldn’t learn any other way. In this story Jesus and his disciples are crossing the Sea of Galilee in a small fishing boat.

Some of the disciples were fishermen, and they had spent much of their lives on this body of water. So from one point of view, they were the experts—and Jesus, who had grown up as a carpenter’s son, was in their care.

Yet their expertise was being tested. While Jesus was asleep in the back of the boat, the wind suddenly blew stronger. Soon the sea came crashing over the sides and swamping the boat. These fishermen knew how dangerous this storm was. They knew that they all could drown.

They woke Jesus from his sleep, saying, “Don’t you care?!” But as soon as he woke up, Jesus said to the wind and the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” And the sea became calm. The disciples were in a state of awe. “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

Through this terrifying experience the disciples saw clearly who Jesus was. They were tested in the area of life they knew best, and Jesus showed he is Lord over all things. The storms of life can trouble our souls, but God can reveal more of himself to us through these experiences.