Luke 8

“Who can this be?”

In today’s chapter, this was asked concerning Jesus.

According to Luke, after Jesus rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, they ceased and there was a calm (Luke 8:24). Who is Jesus that He commands even the winds and water and they obey Him?

We know that Jesus is Lord of all things because He is God. His divine attributes of omniscience, omnipresence and omniscience were evident during the years He took the form of flesh and dwelt on earth.

In our reading of the gospel according to Luke so far, have we identified them? Did you see how He knew the hearts of men? How He was both on earth and in Heaven? How He manifested His authority and power?

Today, we look further into the omnipotence of Jesus and how He is Lord of not just nature, but also demons, diseases and even death.

Bible Passage:  Luke 8

Have you ever had the experience of hurrying to find cover from a sky full of ominous-looking clouds and having it start to pour the moment you stepped under shelter? Or have you ever noticed how it hardly ever rains when we conduct baptism? Or how it had been raining for days but stopped when the church had an outdoor activity (only to start raining again after)?

Next time you take note of these sort of happenings, remember to give thanks to God and also remember that He is the God who commands the storms, the winds and all aspects of nature.

Besides having control over nature, Jesus has control over demons as well. Why else would the demon-possessed man cry out and fall down before Him upon seeing Him? As His disciples, we should have no fear of demons as well. Although we do not put ourselves in the positions where we have to deal with them (dabbling in strange practices and games etc.), we should also be assured of the power of the blood of Christ when we are faced with such situations.

As Jesus tells us,

[…] do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matt 10:28)

More close to our heart is how Jesus is Lord over diseases and death.

We had already seen previously how Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law, the leper and so on as well as how He raised the widow’s son from death in Nain.

In this chapter, we see more of His almighty power upon the woman with a flow of blood and Jairus’ daughter.

Is Jesus’ power so easily granted?

Yes and no.

While it seems a simple thing for the woman with a flow of blood to touch Jesus or Jairus to bring Him to his house, we must see the effort as well as faith behind these actions.

Let us learn to be like them in having faith and focusing on Jesus despite what men around us say so that we can always, in some way or another, experience the miraculous grace of Jesus.