Actually, it never occurred to the disciples to take the supernatural way out of that situation. It never entered their minds to stand up and speak to that storm. The reason is simple. They didn’t think as Jesus thought.
He thought like Someone Who had access at all times to the power of God Himself, which is superior to all the forces of the natural world. (That’s why it’s called supernatural.) The disciples thought like people who were subject to those natural forces.
That’s why they “feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
Instead of jumping up and saying, “Hey, that’s the way I want to be!” they just thought Jesus was strange. People still think that about God. They say things like, “You never know what God will do. He moves in mysterious ways.”
That was true until the Holy Spirit came to teach us all things. (See John 16:13.) We’re not meant to look at God as some strange, mysterious being anymore. We’re to know Him and imitate Him as dearly beloved children (Ephesians 5:1).
The truth is, He isn’t strange at all. He has just seemed strange to us because instead of living on His level as we were created to do, mankind has slipped down into the natural realm in his thinking. When you’re living at that low level, everything about God baffles you.
Some folks say, “Yes, amen, but you know that’s the way the Bible says it will be. After all, God’s ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts.”
Yes, it does, and if that’s all it said, we could never hope to be anything except stupid. But, praise God, the Bible doesn’t stop there. If you’ll go ahead and read the rest of Isaiah 55, you’ll find God also said:
As the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and return-eth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (verses 10-11).
In other words, you don’t have to stay below God’s thoughts. Your thoughts can come up to His level. How? Through His Word. God’s thoughts are in His Word, so if you think His Word, you’ll think His thoughts.
But wait a minute. To think God’s supernatural thoughts, you’d have to have a “supernatural mind” wouldn’t you?
Yes—and if you’re a believer, you already have one. First Corinthians 2:16 says it this way: “We have the mind of Christ.” I read that for years, but I didn’t really understand it until I translated the word Christ. It means “the Anointed One.”
So, to have the mind of Christ is to have a mind that is under the influence of the Anointing of God.
A mind that’s not under the influence of God is in opposition to Him. It always goes contrary to His ways. And since God’s ways are right, then a mind without the anointing will think wrong.
