You don’t have to be a believer to believe. Chapter 8 in the book of Matthew is filled with healing and miracles. It opens with Jesus healing a leper. Then the Centurion asks Jesus to heal the Centurion’s servant. Jesus offers to to go his home and Centurion tells Jesus that he knows that if Jesus just says a word his servant will be healed and the servant is healed in that moment. He heals Peter’s mother-in-law and then spends the evening delivering people from demons and diseases.

Jesus decides to travel to the other side of the lake. While in the boat a furious storm arises. The disciples panic. Even after witnessing all of those miracles the disciples panic during the storm. In the physical presence of God, they panic. Even though they are spending  great deal of time with Him they don’t understand who Jesus is. They don’t understand the magnitude of Jesus’ power and that faith is a key to unlocking that power.

Faith requires more than relationship, it requires understanding of God’s nature. The people who were closest to Jesus were surprised by what He could do. We need more than connection, we need to understand who we are connected to. Although the leper and the Centurion were not in daily contact with Jesus they understood what He was capable of and behaved accordingly.  When we declare that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, that He is King of kings, and the Lion of Judah do we know what we are saying? When we declare that we worship the Great I Am, do we really know what that means? Does our behavior show that we are daughters and sons of the Most High God? Or do we behave as though we are subject to the whims of nature and man? Are we worrying about our jobs, our bills and our health, instead of embracing the totality of God’s power? Are you walking, living, breathing in the knowledge that our God, our Father has everything, is everything and can do anything we need? Or are you a believer who does not believe?  Do you panic in the storm even when Jesus is on the boat? “What are you so afraid of, you of little faith?” Matthew 8:26 The Voice