Jesus walking on water may be the most famous of His miracles. It is also one of His hardest miracles to believe if you are a skeptic, and with good reason: it defies the laws of nature. Mark also records that the disciples knew it defied the law of nature and that they didn’t believe it at first either. C.S. Lewis said this about miracles: “Men became scientific only because they expected Nature to behave according to certain laws. And they expected Nature to behave according to certain laws only because they believed in a supreme Law giver…Belief in miracles, then, far from depending on an ignorance of the laws of nature, is only possible if there are laws of nature and we have come to know and expect what they are.” Why did God choose to work this miracle in that moment and what did He want his disciples and us to see? That is what we will look at today in Mark 6.
