A Lesson About The Sea

Job 38:8-11 "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it and thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars and place when I said, “This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt”?

It is Friday today.  I am writing devotionals for next week.  I often write in view of the ocean.  I cannot adequately express my love for the sea.  The beauty, the power, the awesomeness and the serenity.

This passage from Job that describes the sea from God's perspective as the One who created it is amazing to me.  Probably why my attraction to it is so deep because I both love it and have an awesome fear of it too.  Like God.  Similar feelings.  God gives me life and someday will take my life into eternity.

I would not last long in the ocean without help.  I am not a strong swimmer.  I do plan to have my ashes put in the sea.  Maybe that represents my oneness with God.  My soul will be with My God and my Savior forever in heaven.  For now I will serve Him here.  But this ocean is somehow how I get close.  He shows me His love, grace, beauty, power and hope here.

Receiving that from this view and His Word today.

Pastor Fred