People are drawn to the ocean. It is larger than we can contain in our eyes. It is grander than we can conceive. We cannot measure its waters nor count its sands. The ocean contains life so small we need a microscope to see it and so large we think it could swallow us without ever stopping to eat. Interestingly, God created a whale with a throat that limits its swallowing capacity to that of a grapefruit, according to that great science expert Google.
What, then, is the draw of the ocean? For me, the ocean represents God’s power to create something that is larger than words can easily describe and no human can replicate. The ocean is God’s evidence of His vision in, His demonstration of, and His limitless power toward His favorite of all creation, even greater than the world’s oceans, mankind.
There are people who flock to the beaches to put human feet in their warm sands, to stand at its edge as the waves push against the boundaries while soaking the toes of those who stand and wait. Yet, many of those people do not consider the source of the magnificence, the Creator Himself.
In the creation account, the land rose out of the water when God called it out. God envisioned a world where His creation could walk to the water’s edge, be soaked in the waves and admire His handiwork. He spoke everything into existence before He created the first family to live in it. From the beginning, God was extravagant. God’s heart is large toward us, and it has always been so.
When sin was destroying mankind, as sin always will, in the “fullness of time”, God sent His Son. The life of Jesus demonstrated God’s love, compassion, largeness and power toward us. The death of Jesus when His sinless body had encapsulated sin, after His brutal, torturous crucifixion, demonstrated the lengths of brutality God would endure to win back those He loved. Again, mankind.
So as the seasons change again and the shopping frenzy takes over our thought life, may we be reminded of this One thing. God’s determination to love us, even if we choose not to love Him, will never change. May those of us who say we know Him forget the tinsel and the bows long enough to bring our prayer for those who don’t know Him to the throneroom, where the blood on the mercy seat, the Son’s own blood, waits to redeem all who come.
The raw power of God is available for all. Creation’s power is still demonstrated when people confess Jesus as Lord. There is power in His blood.
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