Matthew 8:25

Mat. 8:25. "And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us, we perish." This ship shadows to us the Christian church, which indeed it contained in it, with its head. God commonly suffers his people to be just upon the very brink of destruction before he delivers them; as here the tempest arose so much, that the ship was covered with waves. God seems to be asleep, and so lets them alone, as Christ was, and must be awakened by the earnest prayers and cries of his people, before he will deliver them; and says, as in Psalms 44:23, "Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise; cast us not off for ever!" Psalms 7:6; Psalms 7:23; Psalms 78:65, "Then will the Lord awake us one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine."

Mat. 9:10