I can swim, but I prefer solid ground beneath me.
If I am forced to swim, I like seeing the bottom. As soon as it gets a little bit shadowed or dark, I begin to imagine that some deep-sea (or deep-lake) monster is going to rush up and grab me, dragging me down into the pressurized darkness, cracking all my bones. Deep water makes me nervous.
The monstrous, roiling waves, capable of overpowering the greatest of ships constructed by man, capable of destroying cities, of overturning houses, of pummeling rock to sand to be lapped up against the shore...this grand, terrifying body is subjected to the God I call Father.
Wow.
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.
(Psalm 42:7, emphasis mine)
I am not comforted by the sea. Yet I am comforted by the fact that the sea is God's sea. The waterfalls are God's waterfalls. The deep that calls to deep, the deep that thunders nervousness in my chest, is the deep that answers to the Creator's call.
When life sends wave after wave of trial and trouble at me, I know that these waves are not battering me in spite of God's attempts to protect me.
God is sending the waves.
And God is protecting me.
God will bring me through what He has in store for me, even if my journey consists of travelling down to the pressurized darkness of the deep. Even if I cannot see the bottom, even if I cannot see the end in sight, I will praise God, because He holds me, and the waves answer to Him.
"I am not comforted by the sea. Yet I am comforted by the fact that the sea is God's sea."
ReplyDeleteAmen!
"God is sending the waves."
Amen!
"And God is protecting me."
Amen and amen! This is such a great post about the power and sovereignty of a Beautiful God, who is always in control of our circumstances. He is mighty to save. He has a good purpose in all that He does.
I understand about the waves that overwhelmed. I've been feeling a little bit overwhelmed myself. Thanks for this reminder that the waves answer to Him.