Dominion

Have you ever been in a situation that made you fear for your life? Maybe I’m one of those people that people call “unlucky.” I’m alive, so I don’t see myself this way. I see myself as blessed by God.

Here are a few of the many ways I should have died. As a child, at night, I fell through the ice of a lake. As a teenager, I had a head-on collision with another car and I was ridiing in the back of a pickup truck when it hit a large object that caused me to fly out of the back of the truck, do a 360⁰ spin in the air (according to the other guys in the truck), and land with a thud. As an adult, I’ve been a passenger on four planes with serious mechanical problems – think stuff like a collapsing landing gear. I’ve been in tornadoes, hurricanes, straight-line winds, massive hailstorms, and so on. So, I can relate to the dangerous storm He and His apostles experienced.

When Jesus calmed the stormy sea, did He do that as the Son of God or the Son of Man? Well, if we go back to Genesis 1:26, we find that God gave Adam, before he sinned, “dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Adam sinned, and his dominion was lost. Then Jesus came¹.

Jesus is 100% man and 100% God², so, as the sinless “second Adam³,” He had dominion over “all the earth.” So, when Jesus commanded the storm to stop⁴, He was most likely exercising His sinless, human authority. As a sinless Man, Jesus knew the extent of the full dominion available to a sinless person. A person who was wholly committed to God, with the evidence of faith in action to God. He was using His authority, as a man who, because He was without sin, exercised His authority over the earth. Is that not a blessing? Jesus showed us a glimpse of what God had intended for humanity.

Now we have seen Jesus, as a man, exercise authority over a storm. Can you think of a time when He exercised His authority as the Son of God? If so, add it to the comments!

God Bless, and remember: “Live for Jesus, that’s what matters.”

Footnotes

1. Isaiah 7:14 – The Sign of Immanuel. (n.d.). Bible Hub. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://biblehub.com/isaiah/7-14.htm ↩︎
2. How can Jesus be 100% God and 100% man at the same time? (n.d.). Biblehub.Com. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://biblehub.com/q/how_is_jesus_fully_god_and_man.htm ↩︎
3. 1 Corinthians 15:45 – The Resurrection Body. (n.d.). Bible Hub. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-45.htm ↩︎
4. Mark 4:35-41 – New Living Translation. (n.d.). Bible Gateway. Retrieved April 21, 2025, from https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%204%3A35-41&version=NLT ↩︎