![]() ![]() The Egyptians pursued them, but at daybreak God clogged their chariot-wheels and threw them into a panic, and with the return of the water, the pharaoh and his entire army are destroyed. At God's command, Moses held his hand out over the water, and throughout the night a strong east wind divided the sea, and the Israelites walked through on dry land with a wall of water on either side (Exodus 14:21&22). When the Israelites see the Egyptian army they are afraid, but the pillar of fire and the cloud separates the Israelites and the Egyptians. God causes the Pharaoh to pursue the Israelites with chariots, and the pharaoh overtakes them at Pi-hahiroth. There God tells Moses to turn back and camp by the sea at Pi-HaHiroth, between Migdol and the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon. The love that God wants to lavish you with will knock you over and submerge you and carry you away.Crossing the Red Sea, a wall painting from the 1640s in Yaroslavl, RussiaĪfter the Plagues of Egypt, the Pharaoh agrees to let the Israelites go, and they travel from Ramesses to Succoth and then to Etham on the edge of the desert, led by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Sometimes we need to step away to a place where we can hear God reaching out to us. When we have sin in our lives that blocks fellowship with him those waves of love relentlessly crash against that sin and break it up and wash it away.Ĭan you hear the ocean’s waves? Do you believe that God is waiting to pour that unending love over you? When we feel like we can’t go on, his waves pick us up and carry us toward the shore. When our soul is parched and weary, his love washes over us like a crashing waterfall. The Lord Directs His LoveĪt the same time, “the Lord directs his love” to those deep places within us that need it the most. There is a depth to God’s communication with me that cannot be explained unless you have felt it yourself. He reaches into my very soul with his love and care for me. “Deep calls to deep” reminds me that God calls out to me on a deeper, less superficial level than mere words can express. Sometimes God feels near to me and other times he feels farther away, but I know that the fury of his unending love is washing over me at all times. I can’t hear the ocean from my house, but I know that the waves are still crashing on the beach with unending fury. I am about 350 miles from the beach I went to as a kid. Whether we are near or far from him, His love for us never ceases. Isn’t that imagery a beautiful picture of God’s love for us?īy day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me–a prayer to the God of my life. As wave after wave crashes onto the sands the relentless pounding rearranges each grain of sand over and over and over. It’s continual crashing can be deafening at times. If you have ever stood at the edge of the ocean, or seen a crashing waterfall you have witnessed the mighty power that is contained in that water. In context, this verse can refer to sorrow and troubles being poured out on us. The 42nd Psalm is really about loneliness and feeling down. I was reading my bible this morning and this verse was underlined. Deep Calls To Deepĭeep calls to deep in the roar of all your waterfalls all your waves and breakers have swept over me. There is a special kind of magic for me when I hear the ocean waves. Later, when I fell in love with my wife, she joined these trips and she and I would take long walks on the beach planning our future. We would build sand castles and take long walks. My mom, sister, brother, dad, and I would rest from the stresses of work and school. It was on these trips that some of my best memories were made. It was a double sacrifice for him because he would be missing a week of work and paying for a family vacation. My dad was a carpenter who struggled to get by most of his life, but each year he would scrape enough money together to take us to the beach for a week in the summer. ![]() ![]() I guess it is rooted in my memories of vacations as a kid. My happy place is sitting on a white, sandy beach listening to the sound of the ocean waves crashing against the shore. ![]()
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