But supposing you, who know
something about him, were alone on the sea, and expecting your boat to be
swamped every moment--if you found out all at once, that he was looking
down at you from some lofty hilltop, and seeing all round about you in time
and space too, would you be afraid? He might mean you to go to the bottom,
you know. Would you mind going to the bottom with him looking at you? I do
not think I should mind it myself. But I must take care lest I be boastful
like Peter.
"Why should we be afraid of anything with him looking at us who is the
Saviour of men? But we are afraid of him instead, because we do not believe
that he is what he says he is--the Saviour of men. We do not believe what
he offers us is salvation. We think it is slavery, and therefore continue
slaves. Friends, I will speak to you who think you do believe in him. I am
not going to say that you do not believe in him; but I hope I am going to
make you say to yourselves that you too deserve to have those words of the
Saviour spoken to you that were spoken to Peter, 'O ye of little faith!'
Floating on the sea of your troubles, all kinds of fears and anxieties
assailing you, is He not on the mountain-top? Sees he not the little boat
of your fortunes tossed with the waves and the contrary wind? Assuredly he
will come to you walking on the waters.
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