Two scenes have frequented my mind this week.

The first is the disciples on the boat with Jesus. Storm raging, the Master sleeping. ​“Don’t you care we’re going to die?”

The second is John Wesley on a boat in January 1736. Storm raging, the Moravians singing.

“Were you not afraid?” Wesley asked one of them.

“I thank God, no.”

Wesley pressed, ​“But were not your women and children afraid?”

“No; our women and children are not afraid to die.”

Faith like this boggles my mind. Some days I can’t even go to the supermarket without a lump of anxiety in my chest for one reason or another. Yet here are flesh-and-blood families alive less than 300 years ago aboard a ship being swallowed by the sea and they are singing together — singing! — not trying to believe Jesus but actually believing Him with every fiber of their being.

I yearn for that kind of faith.

Dallas Willard asserted that the world is a perfectly safe place to be for those in the Kingdom of God. Recently someone asked us: How is this possible if the Kingdom is not yet fully realized on earth?

This question is tackled on the latest episode of Friends in Formation, our new Q&A style podcast. In the conversation, James Catford remarks on the story of the disciples in the storm: ​“The way I understand it is that they would have been safe even if the ship had gone down.”

While the disciples were ​“mini-faiths” at this early stage in their journey with Jesus, I have no doubt that ten years later in the same boat they’d be singing like the Moravians. Because confidence in Jesus grows as we spend time with him and do things together and learn his heart.

But even if confidence is shaky, even if Jesus seems asleep, there’s still a path forward: honest prayer. Our desperate cry of ​“Don’t you care?” won’t go unanswered.