Marissa: Of The Sea
If you know me at all, you know that I am in love with the ocean. I have always known my name means "Of the Sea" but I never connected that with my love of the ocean. I love the sight smell, sound, and sometimes the taste (There's nothing quite like an mouth full of ocean saltwater!)
But I love the ocean for more reasons than just those. A few years ago now, someone that is very special to me told me about why they love the ocean. They told me that when they think of the ocean, they think of God's mercies and how they are neverending. When you look at the ocean, it seems neverending and to go on forever. I took this analogy a little bit farther. I pictured us as humans being the sandy beach, and God being the ocean waves. So powerful, yet gentle at the same time. Sometimes the beach gets "messy" with rocks, debris and other things. But the waves keep coming back over and over again taking away the mess until the beach is clean again. It's just like how God will never leave us. He keeps helping us over and over again until we are back on our feet and "clean" again.
This song gave me another perspective of comparing God to the ocean. It is just so beautiful, and you cannot take it all in at once and you want to just keep coming back for more. That is how we need to be with God. We should never get to a point where we are content with where we are at in our relationship with him. We always need to be digging for more.
I love the Ocean. I love Jesus.
