I love the beach and I know I am not alone in this sentiment. There is nothing as beautiful as the Ocean on a bright blue sunny day. The sun glistens on the water sending prisms of sparkling diamond rays everywhere. The ocean roars as it sends it waves crashing onto the shore all but then to gently have them swirl around your feet, sand filling in between your toes.
You watch the seagulls dive into the water on their quest for lunch their voices carry across the sky blending into the salt air, a perfect picture from God…some things just go together and one without the other wouldn’t seem right. There’s something ethereal in the ocean, one of Gods most powerful churches. I can’t ever stand and look out at the ocean that has no end and not think of a scripture that always puts things in perspective for me.
Isaiah 40:12 NLT “Who has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale?”
What does that say to you? To me, it says that no matter how big my problems seem, there is nothing on this Earth that I am going through that is to big for God!!! Nothing!!! If my God who not only created the earth and all the waters can hold them in the palm of his hand…Thats a big hand and my big problems or woes are tiny in comparison.
Are you feeling exiled in your land of Egypt? Is life making you feel: Burdened, Weighed Down, Abused, Used, Hopeless, Defeated…Tired!!!
Are you trying to escape the bondage of: Debt, Anger, Depression, Drugs or Alcohol, A Nowhere Job, No Job, A Relationship…your prison can be anything that has a hold over you that you seem to have lost control of or it feels so big that there seems no way out!!!
The Jews in the 13th Century felt the exact same way!!! They prayed to God asking for deliverance from their bondage of slavery in Egypt. God heard their prayers and sent them a man named Moses…now deliverance came but it wasn’t without work and help from everyone and it didn’t happen over night but the take away is they never ceased in prayers or faith and the day came of their Exodus.
But…the fight wasn’t over. They were delivered but they still had to walk in their new path and obstacles were encountered and once more prayer was the key…it’s one of the most famous stories in the Bible…The Parting of the Red Sea. Can you imagine how cool that was walking on the floor of the ocean with a wall of water as still as glass on each side of you. I imagine as cool as it was to watch the sea life in their inhabitant, (God’s first aquarium) that it was also a bit unnerving to be in such a precarious predicament…
However, they kept walking forward…they got tired, they got discouraged, some even quit…but for the ones who held on, kept walking, kept praying and believing…they made it to the land of milk and honey.
Mark 11:22-24 NCV “Jesus answered, “Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, fall into the sea.’. And if you have no doubts in your mind and believe that what you say will happen, God will do it for you”
I have had a few mountains in my life that I have prayed into the sea. I’ve stepped out on a path or two that was as intimidating as the walls of water and had to walk in faith, never giving up on that mountain being gone or the end of the path arriving. BUT, they are gone, and with each new mountain comes my visit to the beach and my new prayer of Exodus.
Don’t ever give up, don’t ever stop striving and believing in not only Jesus but yourself as well. You got this…Have a most Blessed Day…Thank you for joining me 🥰
Sunshine On My Shoulder 