The Fatherhood of God (James S. Stewart)

Now Jesus did not only teach faith. He lived it. He practiced what He preached. Every page of the Gospel's shows you Jesus taking the faith in a Father – God, which He proclaimed to men and putting Himself into it, body and soul. Out of a great mass of instances, take just one (Mark 4:37). There was a night on the Galilean Lake when the sudden whirlwind blew and the waves were lashed to fury, and the frail fishing craft sagged and struggled in the trough of the waves. The fisherman looked into one another's terrified faces and cried that this was the end. But Jesus lay asleep on a pillow. To us, reading the story today, that sleeping Christ in the storm is one of the most compelling arguments for faith in the world. Asleep – why? Because it was God's sea, and the waves and the wind and the dark were in His Father's hand, and underneath were the everlasting arms.

By teaching and life Jesus showed that to know a God who is thus vitally interested in all his children's concerns is to have the secret of a peace, a poise, and a steadiness that nothing in life can disturb. The man who has made that discovery has passed out of the bondage of fear and worry into a glorious liberty and release. He is a man who has achieved absolute independence of circumstances in utter dependence upon God. He has found what Jesus meant by “blessedness” (Matt 5:3). He is doing what the New Testament calls “overcoming the world”. Because God is at his right hand, he shall not be moved”.

From "The Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ"