That’s why the Incarnation, the Resurrection, and the Ascension of Jesus are so vitally important. They allow us to have true communion with God because God Himself took on our flesh, and united himself to every one of our human experiences – from conception, to birth, to life, to suffering and death – and then He took that same human flesh to heaven, assuring us, with the only kind of authority we can truly believe, we have a place there with Him. Someone as human as we are

When everyone was safe in the boat, they worshipped Him: “Truly You are the Son of God!” (Matthew 14:33). Easy to say when you’re safe in the boat. Say that with your feet on the water. That’s where the power is.

Some don’t understand what sort of man Jesus is. They don’t accept what sort of man He is. They don’t come, they don’t kneel, they don’t ask. And so they don’t receive His mighty acts of power. Power happens when we recognize what sort of man Jesus is. He is the man who is also God.

Jesus didn’t do what they wanted. That’s how the crowds hated Him. They wanted the food and the healing, but they didn’t want God.

Did the disciples make the connection between Jesus and the power of God over the sea? Jesus and power? Jesus and God?