A Reflection from the Fuel Daily Readings App for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Click here to read the reading.

When I read the gospel today there is a message that stood out so clear to my own heart, and that is my discontentment with rest.

We live in a day of instant gratification and the idea of having to sit and wait for something is almost becoming foreign to us.

Recently, I ordered a jacket online and it was going to take three days to arrive, and yet every day I went down to the mailbox, hoping, begging that it was there. I did not want to wait and I wouldn’t stop thinking about it till it arrived, to no surprise on the day that I had been originally told.

I think this is the same discontentment that the disciples were feeling on the boat. They knew that Jesus was God, they had seen the miracles that He had performed and so watching Him rest in the middle of the storm when He could be helping them didn’t make sense. However, although they knew all of this they failed to have faith that His timing is perfect. They couldn’t comprehend resting through the fear of the water.

May we learn to be more like Jesus. May we learn to rest in the midst of our busy lives, may we take breaks to pray even when we have an impending deadline, may we remember that giving our time to the One who can calm any storm will only ever reap a good harvest.

+ Lord, I thank you that your timing is perfect, I thank you that you are so so good. I pray that you renew my trust in you to be able to lay with you in the storm.