耶稣时常提出非常具挑战性的问题，而当有人问祂一个问题时，祂也时常以另一个问题来回应的，祂希望人们思想一下，他们在做什么和为什么这样做。
耶稣的门徒在湖中遇到大风浪，当他们唤醒耶稣时，祂大可以问他们很多问题：我们在那里？现在是什么时间？往那个方向去可以抵岸？有谁懂得游泳？但祂没有问以上这些问题，反而去责备风和浪，祂站在船上望着恢复平静的门徒，问他们说：“你们的信心在哪里呢？”
我们思想这件事时，虽然我们可以理解门徒的恐惧，但我们仍然可能会觉得出奇，他们对风浪为何会有这样的反应。难道他们真的以为，他们与耶稣同走的人生路程，就这样在湖的大风浪中完结吗？
耶稣是否时常都需要问，我们的信心在哪里呢？大风浪随时都会临到我们：癌症的诊断、银行账户没有存款、失业、破裂的人际关系等等。这些事情都会把我们打击得摇摇欲坠；在这些不幸的遭遇中，我们的信心也会摇动。我们怀疑神在那里，我们质疑祂的判决和慈爱。然而，耶稣却平静地问：“你的信心在哪里呢？”——祂用的不是怪责的语气，祂乃是以我们从未听过的慈爱和忍耐问我们的。
耶稣期望我们这样回答说：“我的信心就在这里，在掌管万事的耶稣里面，祂能平静最猛烈的风浪。”
父啊，感谢祢提醒我们，祢在掌管一切，虽然我们觉得我们似乎正在下沉，然而祢必定常常与我们同在。阿们。
路加福音 8:22-25
22 有一天，耶稣和门徒上了船，对门徒说：“我们可以渡到湖那边去。”他们就开了船。
23 正行的时候，耶稣睡着了。湖上忽然起了暴风，船将满了水，甚是危险。
24 门徒来叫醒了他，说：“夫子！夫子！我们丧命啦！”耶稣醒了，斥责那狂风大浪，风浪就止住，平静了。
25 耶稣对他们说：“你们的信心在哪里呢？”他们又惧怕又稀奇，彼此说：“这到底是谁？他吩咐风和水，连风和水也听从他了！”
“Where is your faith?” — Luke 8:25
Jesus often asked really challenging questions. And when someone asked him a question, he often responded with a question in return. He wanted people to think about what they were doing in life and why.
When his disciples woke him in the midst of a storm on the lake, Jesus could have asked a lot of questions: Where are we? What time is it? Which way to shore? Who knows how to swim? But he didn’t ask any of those questions. Instead, he rebuked the wind and the waves, stood there in the renewed calm looking at his disciples, and asked them, “Where is your faith?”
When we think about it, even though we can understand the disciples’ fear, maybe we should wonder about their reaction to this storm. Did they really think their journey with Jesus was going to end in a storm at sea?
How often might Jesus ask us where our faith is? Storms come up all the time: a cancer diagnosis, an empty bank account, the loss of a job, a broken relationship. All of these things can knock us off balance, and in the midst of them, our faith can falter. We wonder where God is. We question his judgment and love. But Jesus calmly asks, “Where is your faith?”—not in a condemning way, but with the most love and patience we have ever known.
Jesus’ question begs the answer: “My faith is standing right there, embodied in Jesus Christ, who is in control of all things, even the fiercest storm.”
Father, thank you for reminding us that you are in control and you are always with us, even when we feel like we are sinking. Amen.
诵读: 楚云
片头: 张妙阳
