Easter Eggs Part II

In Mark, whenever I read the passage when Jesus was asleep in the boat and then calms the storm when the disciples get scared, I always thought that was a regular nature miracle. And yes, control over the weather is definitely miraculous, but after all, Moses parted the Red Sea and Joshua parted the Jordan River and stopped the sun in the sky, so nature miracles aren't entirely proof of actual God-hood. The very interesting thing, though, is what I learned from the lecture by Rick James about the reason why Jesus happened to be asleep at that time, besides the fact that he was human and tired. In Isaiah chapter 51, it says this:

"Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
Awake as in the days of old, the generations of long ago...
Was it not You who dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?" (vv. 9-10)

As the prophet cried out to God to wake and assert His control over the ocean, so the disciples cried out to Jesus. And I love God's response:

"Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem" (v. 17)

You can see in the Isaiah passage and in Mark the same pattern: we cry out to God for help because we know He has the power over our circumstances, and God turns it back to us, trying to help us to realize that what we thought was an external problem was actually an internal one, a matter of our own hearts.