Today we hear Saint Matthew’s account of how Jesus Christ came to His disciples, walking across the water when they were caught in a storm while crossing the lake in a boat. Moreover, the Apostle Peter asked to be allowed to come to Christ across the water. But he began to sink when he took fright at the wind. He called out toChrist, who rescued him and calmed the storm.
This incident shows us that, without Christ, we are exposed to various dangers and storms. Jesus Christ comes to us in the midst of these, and He calls us to come to Him. However, even when we do respond to Him and seek to follow Him, we remain in danger of getting distracted. When we start to focus on the dangers around us, and lose our focus on Him, we begin to sink. However, even then Christ seeks to reach out to us if we are ready to turn to Him and, to cry with Saint Peter, “Lord, save me!”
The world that we live in will inevitably present us with temptations, and even when we seek to follow Christ we can find ourselves easily distracted. We can also get discouraged by own failures. We therefore need to develop the habit of constantly turning to Christ and finding ways of focusing our thoughts and our gaze on Him and not on ourselves. By ourselves we can do nothing, but with His help we can conquer our fear and overcome the difficulties that we face.