Sea to Shore



Sea to Shore

A storm was brewing and declaring itself with gusts of wind whirling down from black clouds pressing in fast over the Pacific Ocean. The white capped waves were rolling and crashing high up against the shoreline rocks and bluffs.

 

From the vantage point of the second story window that day I watched as a man and woman strolled slowly along the beach seemingly unconcerned and unaware of the great storm coming  or the power of the sea intensifying up behind them.

 

Did they realize it is God our Creator who draws the imaginary line in the sand commanding the sea to stop and then withdraw again? Did they not know it is He who watches over us along every shoreline we wander?

“…Should you not fear me? declares the LORD. “Should you not tremble in my presence?

 I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.

The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.”

Jeremiah 5:22 NIV

One learns to fear and respect the oceans ability to rush into shore past that invisible line of demarcation any time of year along the Washington coast. The locals here will warn all newcomers how the sea can send sneaker waves rushing to shore frighteningly fast and catch a person unaware and it is able to carry them out to sea even after the storms have past.  

 

If we were to write down everything God has created for us, for all He has provided and blessed us with, we could not count or measure them for there would be more than all the grains of sand along the seashores of our lives. Worship lifts us out of self-thinking and reminds us how great thinking about great God is.

“No one ever said at the end of his days, “I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul.” J.C. Ryle

 

“Sea to Shore” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© June 3, 2015