“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.” — Jesus Christ (Mark 11:23)
By speaking to the storm and it obeying, you find yourself sharing spiritually in the authority of The Christ, Jesus. He has been doing it thousands, maybe millions, maybe billions of years and once only He was doing this before the Fathee making all things by this powerful speaking. To be united with Jesus Christ is the greatest thing in the Universe.
I rejoice at the wisdom about heavenly things given to the apostles that they would use “Lord” (Greek: kurios) for Jesus rather “God”. They reserve “God” for the Father who is Almighty. Whereas Kurios (Lord) is one who starting small grows to fill a great area. So Jesus became small and constantly grows in greatness. This is why He is called Lord. Distinct from the Father who has always been completely Almighty. We too can grow as we are united with Christ in baptism and learn to do as He does as we receive from God things of power to do. We start as it were small and dead in baptism beneath the water as He was baptised into weakness and even death. Then we grow from there as risen Christ is united with us as we are part of His body. The Father makes us grow as He makes Christ Jesus grow. We do greater and greater things which display Christ’s Lordship until we can control Nature like He controls it. And as Head of the Body He controls us too as we learn submission to His greater authority.
