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There was nobody else who could help him; help was found

alone in the Saviour. He stretched out His hand immediately

and took hold of Peter and—a beautiful touch I had not noticed

before— they went up into the ship; “when they had gone up

into the ship”, the Lord and Peter.

But I think we need to note that Peter was prepared to leave

the ship to go to Jesus. The root difficulty with a good many

who are uncertain as to their movements is that they are

reluctant to leave the ship, and so the whole point of what the

Lord could effect is being missed. What happened after they

went up into the ship is another scene; the wind dropped

immediately.

Prophetically, that is yet to come, but I am sure of this, that as

the Lord comes in in these movements of His and presents

Himself we need to be committed to the presentation of

Himself so as to get the gain of the intervention. It says in

Mark 6: 47 that He would have passed them by. It is a very

sobering thought. I think Peter is a very important example for

us as to leaving everything to reach Jesus in answer to the

way that He presents Himself at any given time.

Now the intervention in the early 1800’s drew attention to the

glory of the heavenly Man.

Christ above, and to His body here united to Him by the Spirit,

and opened out the richness of Paul’s ministry. When Paul

was converted on the road to Damascus the Lord presented

Himself to him, saying, “Why persecutest thou me?”, and that

was really the crux of Paul’s ministry. One of Paul’s well-

known expressions is, “I speak as to Christ, and as to the

assembly”, Ephesians 5: 32. We need to understand, dear

brethren, the distinctive appearing of the Lord in that particular

movement. The Lord has been appealing to us through

ministry on that line ever since, and the Spirit of God is

stressing it