It was the hand of a Man that was the very power of God which held up Peter on that memorable night. It is the hand of a Man, of Jesus, who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities, that is stretched out to us, and that holds us up upon the very waves that have leaped to our destruction. He is the Son of God, eternal in His being, and omnipotent in power, yet a man who loved us enough to die for us that He might take from our souls the very fear of death and make us triumph evermore.

Lay hold of this great truth, not as a theory, but as a fact to be known first to faith and then blessedly in experience. Peter’s was an individual experience, he had it for himself, but it is an experience that every Christian may have when seas of trouble roll around. Yes, each for himself may be supported by that hand of gracious power and be made more than a conqueror in the very circumstance that threatens to swallow him up. What encouragement there is for us in the story! Peter’s need and distress stretched out and reached the Savior’s heart, and the Savior’s hand stretched out and reached His sinking saint; and with his need met, his fears calmed, and his faith strengthened, Peter walked hand-in-hand with his Master until the storm ceased.