Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 6 verse 53:
"When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat."
After all the adverse wind and rough sailing and that long, and constant feeling of fear that the little ship would never make it across the water, finally it did make it to a place called Gennesaret.
Gennesaret was not necessarily the place where the disciples had set out for. But it was the place they reached; it was the reachable place. And after the dark night at sea, and the adverse wind, and all the choppy waters, those in the boat were glad to make it to Gennesaret. To be truthful, they were glad to make it anywhere, alive and together. The little boat had made it. It had survived the storm. It had crossed the water and the mast had stood strong and the hull had not taken on too much water. They had not drowned. They made it -- to Gennesaret, at least.
And then a great verse whose substance and meaning might be lost on some but whose words are heard as great Gospel for those who've ever been terrified on the sea:
"When they crossed over they came to land and moored the boat."
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