Luke 8:22-25

I realize my comments are a little off beat.  I hope they can be interesting-encouraging-new for some people.
The disciples had heard amazing teaching.  It was uniquely different than that of the scribes and Pharisees.  The scribes taught on distinctions in the law.  The Pharisees spoke on  the nature of God and how to be better observing Jews.  Jesus was so unique.  He was encouraging.  The others, when they did not put you to sleep, made everything seem so hard.  Jesus, without trivializing it, made it seem possible.  And he made it seem important.
The disciples had seem him heal.  Now there were others out there doing healing, sort of like faith healers.  But the disciples knew his healing was different, powerful.  They knew Jesus was not just a teacher and not just a faith healer.
But to see nature obey his command, this was very unexpected.  After seeing other miraculous acts this likely seemed the most powerful to them.  Others taught them.  Others tried to heal people.  But what others tried to command nature?
After Jesus calmed the storm, he asked them, "Where is your faith?"  Why did Jesus ask them?  Does Jesus sometimes ask us the same question?  Should he?
Luke's story shows that the disciples did not even respond to the question. Obviously they did not feel embarrassed by their astonishment.  They did not think it amiss that they had not had faith.
Is the lack of faith Jesus refers to their lack of faith in Jesus ability to command nature on in their lack of faith it their own ability to command nature for themselves in Jesus name?
But Luke says they were not discussing any of this.  Instead they were wondering about Jesus.  Who was he that he could command the wind and the water?  They knew he was unique.  But who was he?  Of course we know the answer.  He was as the Son of God.  He shared the power of God himself.  We still do not understand what it means to be God in the flesh of a man.
No one else ever attempted to change a violent storm or an earthquake.  No people just tried to minimize the damage and to repair the damage after it was over.  One might go to a god and appeal to him/her for help.  But this was a man.
When the disciples woke Jesus what did they expect to happen?  If I were in such a situation, in a boat about to sink and my friend was asleep, from exhaustion as Jesus was, I would probably wake them up.  I would do it so that they too could make arrangements as best they could to try to survive.  Was that why the disciples woke Jesus?  Or did they expect him somehow to do something, to save them somehow?  They might have expected him to do something.  But obviously from their reaction this was not what they expected.  Perhaps it happened so fast they really had no expectations.  They just knew it was a good idea to wake him up.
I know to thinks happen so fast in our lives about all we know to do is cry his name, "Jesus!"  That is what the disciples did.  It was the right thing to do.  It is the right thing for us to do also.

^ Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out. ^ But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger. ^ They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. ^ And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?"