Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Oceans
By Ramone - February 17, 2006
One day I was praying on 3F and I just felt this picture as I worshipped. It was like I was looking up to God, and there was an ocean in the sky. The ocean is His love.
The song that came to mind was "Still" by Reuben Morgan:
When the oceans rise and thunders roar
I will soar with You above the storm
Father You are King over the flood
I will be still and know You are God
How mighty, how large, how wide, how deep is the sea & the ocean? How powerful is it? The ocean can be a frightening thing because it is so infinitely bigger than you and I. It is uncontrollable. It is violent. It washes away. Max Lucado once said,
"How hard it is to find something that is buried at sea! Those who hunt for shipwrecks often know the exact location where a vessel once sank, yet they canot find it. The shifting tides and sand do their work well and swallow into oblivion the ships and treasure that fall under their power."
God tells us to look at the sea, because it is a picture of His love for us:
"Who is a God like You,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of His inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
You will again have compassion on us;
You will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea."
- Micah 7:18-19
As I look up and worship, as I pray for people He has laid on my heart below, He shows me His ocean of love; powerful, mighty, wild, and He is for me. This vast, mighty love has washed away my sins. His mighty love washes away our sins. All of them. Amen!
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I was surprised remember that one of my favorite songs helped define this picture which I saw as I worshiped and prayed that night:
"Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as the flood,
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten,
Throughout Heaven's eternal days.
On the mount of crucifixion,
Fountains opened deep and wide;
Through the floodgates of God's mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
Poured incessant from above,
And Heaven's peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love."
- "Here is Love" by William Rees
# posted by Ramone @ 7:29 PM 
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