Panic prayer

It is this closeness to God that enables Jesus to walk on water. He encourages Peter to do the same. But when Peter sees ‘the wind’ (v.30) he starts to panic. I know that feeling exactly. Sometimes, when things start to go wrong, I take my eyes off Jesus. As I focus on the circumstances around me, I begin to ‘sink’. In the middle of all this, Peter prays a panic prayer: ‘Lord, save me!’ (v.30). Even though it is a panic prayer, it is also a cry from the heart. ‘Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him’ (v.31). As I look back at panic prayers I have prayed, it is wonderful to see the ways in which some of them have been answered.