I stood in the ocean, near to the shore, and it seemed the seas were rough. Waves broke and crashed around me, slammed into me. They tried to knock me down. The sand melted away underneath my feet. I fought just to keep my ground.
Then I went further in, away from the safety of sand and shore, and the seas seemed calmer. Now I was no longer fighting, but floating. Rising and falling as I rode the swells. And the sea was no longer my enemy, but a sweetheart – coaxing me further on, deeper in. There’s freedom in leaving the shore behind.
God draws us away from whatever is our safety zone, the things we retreat to when the going gets rough. Anything we turn to other than God will eventually wash out from under us like sand on the shore. Instead, God calls us to be free of our crutches, our false gods, our counterfeit loves. To leave behind everything that we might rely on more than Him.
To dive into this love like an ocean – boundless, fathomless, overflowing.
May you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Ephesians 3:18-19