Who is this man?🎵 (Psalm 107 and 📜⛵️⛈️)

Who Is This Man?

This is part of the New Song Series—short choruses drawn from Scripture, each one taking a passage of God’s Word and setting its central hope to song—so that truth can be carried with us throughout the week.

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Before Jesus calmed the storm, the Scriptures had already said that God is the One who calms the sea. Years later, Jesus stands in a boat with His frightened disciples, and He speaks: “Peace. Be still.”

Some storms arrive without warning. One of my storms hit 5 years ago when I went from being healthy one moment, to having a brain hemorrhage the next. (Another story for another time).

It could be a phone call, a broken relationship, a season of lack that seems far longer than we expected.

The disciples knew that feeling, when overwhelm and anxiety grips at your stomach, and you just can’t think clearly. What seemed so obvious in your morning prayer time, is now thrown into turmoil.

As they crossed the Sea of Galilee, a violent storm swept over them. Waves crashed into the boat until even experienced fishermen feared they would not survive.

And Jesus was asleep. Finally, they woke Him.

“Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”

Jesus stood, spoke just a few words. “Peace. Be still.”

You know the story; Immediately, the wind stopped and the sea calmed.

But It was the question that followed that moved me to write the song, because the answer matters.

“Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

That question reaches back hundreds of years to Psalm 107: “He (Almighty God) stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.”

In the Psalms, it is the LORD who calms the sea, and now Jesus does the very same thing.

The disciples weren’t simply witnessing a miracle, rather they were beginning to discover who was in the boat with them.

God Himself, present in their lives, in their boat. Not just distant, watching from heaven.

Could it be? The One who commands the wind is the One who chose to sit beside ordinary people in an ordinary fishing boat.

Maybe this is the question for us too: Who is this man? … The more I read the Gospels and the Scriptures, the more I see that Jesus didn’t simply come to calm the storm around us (in fact he often won’t). But he came to bring peace within us, and more than that (perhaps that’s the part that still amazes me most):

The One who speaks to the storm, heals the crippled man’s hand, restores the woman whose life was destroyed by sickens (see here), offers forgiveness of sin and a light where there was only darkness.

The same voice that said,

“Peace. Be still.” is the voice that says,

“Your sins are forgiven.”

Could it really be true? I believe it is, the works speak for themselves. And having being healed from a severe brain bleed, it is the weight of my sins removed that holds more value in my heart.

Jesus didn’t come merely to quiet the wind for a frightened group of disciples.

He came to reconcile us to God, to carry the weight of our sin and as the prophet Micah says so well:

“You will trample our sins under Your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!”

Before you move on, take a moment to listen to the song. And be encouraged.

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Let’s pray

Father in Heaven, may our hearts discover the same answer the first disciples slowly came to know. That your son Jesus Christ, not only calmed the storm. But stepped into the storm for us. To wash us and cleanse us from every barrier to you, so that we could walk in Your will.

May your will be done this day, in our lives and through our prayers, our hands.