The Ocean

Walking alongside the ocean and kneeling down to touch the soft white sand and letting it slip between your fingers to let it fall like snow. Each flick of sand glimmers and has a unique shine that you notices as it slides down the slope you kneel at. As you look out you see the glistening ocean as the sun sets you begin to see the waves calm but still have the breathtaking roar as it rears its waves with a crash upon the shore. Stepping closer to the frothy waves that pull whatever is near it closer to the deep your feet sink deeper in what used to be the corse sand into something slippery and sinking. Your foundation is not as it once was but still you stand there. 

Oceans seem endless.

Seem unknown.

Daring and drawing you to come in. 

Sometimes this feels like our lives and when we look out into the endless unknown we often draw back to the sturdy sand, but something inside of us tells to dare to go into what cannot be seen. Our belief in Christ often starts with a call but do we answer it? Do you dare? Sometimes Jesus asks us to do the unthinkable, unimaginable, and unseen things for us and for those who don’t even go to the ocean because it frightens them. 

For a person who fears the ocean and the shore the sand is corse to there hands and they feel unsteady when walking on its beauty. The roaring of the ocean is a voice that laughs and taunts them to only hear the fearful things that have been unknown to them. The waves are not calm crashing but feel like they could overtake you and pull you in. The endless unknown becomes the dare you can never take because you are not willing to trust.

When you decide to trust the endless becomes your mission to explore.

The unknown becomes a passion

The dare and draw is to stretch you past what is safe but to guide you to new horizons

When envisioning this picture I see not just myself but several people on this same shore questioning what they will do. When you hear the waves taunting and laughing at you begin to sing the truths of what God has called you to do, and to shut out the roar of the enemy and replace it with worship. As you sing you are reminded of Moses and in his story God appears to him and cancels out all of Moses doubts. He could not shut out the roar of Pharaoh voice and the unknown of the promise land seemed to big of a journey for him to lead, but God drew him out of Egypt and parted the water for all of his people. If God can do it for Moses why do we not believe He can do that for us. With God all things are possible and if you believe you can part seas. When you hear the voice of the Lord to go then you go with no doubt and when it begins to seem daring you start praising. 

When your voice declares the waves no longer crash but they retreat.

When others raise their voice the ocean is stirred and you see a ripple that can reach the unknown.

If we learn to trust and believed that God can take us beyond our comfort zones we could reach the unknown and reach for more than the grains of sand but lives.