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Keeping Our Eyes on Jesus
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We live in a stormy world. Waves of financial despair, emotional upheaval, relationship issues and personal failures threaten to capsize us and pull us under.
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The apostle Peter and the other disciples
were crossing the Sea of Galilee one night when they were caught in a sudden
storm.
Wind and waves threatened to capsize their
vessel.
As they struggled against the elements,
they saw something that really frightened them.
In the distance, illuminated by flashes of
lightning, was a person walking on top of the water.
The disciples were convinced they were
seeing a ghost until they looked more closely and saw it was Jesus walking toward
them.
While his traveling companions panicked,
Peter asked Jesus if he could join him on the water.
Keeping his eyes fixed on the Lord, Peter stepped out of the boat and onto the Sea of Galilee.
The Bible doesn’t say what distracted
Peter.
Perhaps it was an especially large wave or
a crash of thunder that made him take his eyes off Jesus — his hope for staying
afloat — to look around at the precarious position he found himself in.
Immediately Peter started to sink.
“Lord,
save me!”
he cried.
Peter’s experience offers a helpful analogy
of the hope found in Scripture.
As long as he kept his eyes on Jesus, he
was able to stay above the fray, even though he was in the midst of it.
When he took his eyes off Jesus, he started
to get overwhelmed. Yet he didn’t sink so far that Jesus couldn’t reach him.
God’s Word is like that for believers.
We live in a stormy world. Waves of
financial despair, emotional upheaval, relationship issues and personal
failures threaten to capsize us and pull us under.
Yet if we keep our eyes fixed on God’s
Word, we can stay above the fray.
If we allow its words to resonate above the
cacophony of doubt, worry, conflict and uncertainty that nag at us every day, we
can enjoy an extraordinary walk with Jesus.
Read the complete story in Matthew 14:22-32.
Some
Bible translations focus on the way Scripture was written — the form,
grammar, even the word order of the original. The difficulty is that no two
languages follow the same set of rules. That’s why translating Scripture is
more than a matter of replacing Greek or Hebrew words with English equivalents.
Other
Bible translations focus on the meaning of Scripture, helping you
grasp the message of the Bible in your own words. The challenge with this
approach is that if you stray too far from the form of the text, you might miss
some of the subtle nuances—literary devices, wordplays, etc.—found in the
original.
Even
the best literal translation can’t follow the original form all the time. And
even the best meaning-based translation can’t capture every detail of meaning
found in the original.
In
1978, the NIV pioneered a different approach: balancing transparency to the
original with clarity of meaning. Our view is that if the first people to
receive the Bible could understand God’s Word the way it was written, you
should be able to as well.
https://www.thenivbible.com/blog/keeping-our-eyes-on-jesus/
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