“Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders.” The song, “Oceans” speaks of trust and bringing me to a place where I trust without borders. There are three pictures above. Each picture displays what my “ocean” has been at different times of my life. I often think of the ocean as a beautiful, vast body of water with a warm sand beach (you can’t see me sitting on the side with a tall, ice-cold, fruity drink in my hand). I listen to the song about the ocean and it calms me and comforts me knowing that it is a beautiful place to sit beside.
Then…the storm comes! During these storms, the ocean is not the comfortable, beautiful place with the warm, sandy beach, and I find myself thrown in the middle of the stormy waters trying to keep my head afloat. Now that trust is much more difficult and I pray for borders and some relief.
Finally, the waves calm down and I begin to see the sun breaking through the clouds. The ocean is still large and the waves are still there, only now they are smaller and if I look really hard, I can see a lighthouse in the distance.
I am thankful to know that it was God who was my life preserver when the waves were so treacherous that I didn’t know if I was going to make it. He has never left my side regardless if the waves were great big or if it was calm and I was sitting on the beach. And the lessons I have learned about myself during the storms have been truly inspiring and almost worth the waves.
Dan, “Big Papa” has a completely different view of the song. God seems to communicate to him that everything is going to turn out when he hears the song. There have been so many different situations that he has been searching for an answer or doubting himself and the song comes on the station. It is amazingly cool how God does that for Dan.
Sam Smiles? Yep, even in the stormy ocean, Sam smiles! Many times I smile through tears, but I smile because I know that God created the ocean and he is beside me to help me handle any wave that may come along. Even better yet, I know that God will use my ocean to help others – now that’s a reason to smile!
I’d love to hear about your ocean or your storm. I’ve said it before, Sam loves to help or pray for people; that really fills me up and makes me smile. Please comment below about your ocean and how I can pray for you!