Three words. Seven letters. Everything.
Dear friend.
I want to ask you something before we get going.
How did you wake up this morning?
Not the alarm, not the routine - I mean the feeling you woke up into. That moment before you’ve even remembered what you were worried about, and it’s already there. A quiet heaviness. A low hum of something unresolved.
Most of us know that feeling well. We just don’t always say it out loud.
In today’s devotional, I’ve been sitting with three small words from Matthew 14. Jesus is walking on water toward a boatful of terrified disciples. They think he’s a ghost. And he speaks.
“I am here.”
In the original Greek, that phrase - ego eimi - carries the divine name. It’s the same phrase God used with Moses at the burning bush. So Jesus isn’t just offering reassurance. He’s saying: the one who holds every star in place is right here, right in the middle of this.
And there’s a verse in Zephaniah - you don’t hear it quoted very often - that says God will calm all your fears. Not with a lecture. Not with a list of things to do better. Simply with his love.
The one small step I’m suggesting today is this: name one place where you are afraid - and say, quietly or out loud, “Jesus, I believe you are here.”
Not “fix this.” Just “you are here.” That simple act of naming his presence is itself an act of faith.
The full devotional - with the Greek background, Zephaniah 3:17, and a prayer - is on YouTube today.
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See you tomorrow.
Rob
Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/when-the-storm-wont-stop-and-what?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true