Jesus to the schlub (all of us),… “You don’t realize that not only did I get you out of this mess, but I’ll get you out of all the others too. Let go and trust me…I’ve got you!”

I’ve been thinking about this incident recently. I wonder what faith it was that Peter lost. It wasn’t faith in Jesus, otherwise why, as he’s sinking, would he cry out “Jesus save me!”?

I’m wondering, was it the faith that God could use him to reveal something miraculous? Is that what he lost sight of? Did the howling wind have that cry within it, that comes from deep inside us that says “no, not you…never you..”?

As he bobbed up and down on the waves was he reminded of the low points in his life, and how quickly they came, even though he’d experienced so many highs?

And was he comparing himself to others in the boat, more suitable than himself perhaps?

Just questions that have been noodling away in my brain recently. I wonder what other ways God’s beauty might be revealed, the miraculous achieved and the astonishing experienced if I/we could get over that inner doubt that God has any genuine interest in us.

I think Rob Bell had a good take on it in his book, Velvet Elvis.
Jesus had faith that Peter could do it, else he wouldn’t have said come to me.
Peter had faith in Jesus, he saw Him walking on the water.
Peter may have lost faith in himself.
Not that he could make himself walk on water without God, but that God gave him the ability and he just couldn’t believe it.
At least that’s a possibility.

Jonathon, that is a very good possibility. I wish I were more able to come up with a better answer.