Because the Master Said So

How many of us believe things because the Master said so? To have faith is to believe that it is night even though it is day because our Master said so. Jesus appeared to be frustrated at times with his disciples and others lack of faith.

Late that day he said to them, "Let's go across to the other side." They took him in the boat as he was. Other boats came along. A huge storm came up. Waves poured into the boat, threatening to sink it. And Jesus was in the stern, head on a pillow, sleeping! They roused him, saying, "Teacher, is it nothing to you that we're going down?"
Awake now, he told the wind to pipe down and said to the sea, "Quiet! Settle down!" The wind ran out of breath; the sea became smooth as glass. Jesus reprimanded the disciples: "Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith at all?"
They were in absolute awe, staggered. "Who is this, anyway?" they asked. "Wind and sea at his beck and call!" Mark 4:35-41

I do not think that God is troubled at our lack of faith because there is something that he is "going to release out of his hand when we release our faith." We all know this little trick don't we? I think that the frustration about the lack of faith is that we do not take God and trust God. We do not trust that if God created all this expansive universe, billions and billions of light years across, God will not care for us. You can see it in the passage above. The disciples were completely unaware of Jesus being God and able to control all! Do we believe because our master has said so? Despite the fact that it may look like it is day, it is really night because God said. Would we believe it, do we have that kind of faith. Not faith that looks for God to be a bellboy and give us something good if we give enough tips, but a God that cares just because that is God's nature. God cannot do anything but care.

Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:28

God is doing it all for us. We are doing nothing, we are being done by a loving, wonderful, awesome, expansive, beautiful creator that cares. This does not mean that we always understand, feel good or happy, but it does mean that we allow our faith to rule over these things at times - Because the Master Said So.

Namaste'