35 Days to Go

It amazing how as you walk the journey and circumstances present themselves, you see how God knowing the big picture as He is orchestrating events at His will, He is also preparing us for what He knows is upcoming in our lives. So when this happens and we take our eyes off of Him, we can easily become distracted and lose our focus on Him.

My family loves to vacation at the beach. It’s been a yearly tradition for as long as I can remember. I love the beach because it’s so easy to see His majesty by watching the ocean. Waves are the most amazing to watch . . . the power in His hand that makes the tide of the whole ocean rise and fall . . . the power that’s in His fingers which causes the waves to crash onto the beach. I used to love standing on the shore about knee high or waist deep and try to time the rhythm of the waves to be able to jump them. If you watch the picture of the ocean, it’s fairly easy to feel the rhythm and timing but you have to stay focused. But sometimes, I would become distracted and turn my back and lose focus. And before I knew it, a wave would come out of nowhere and knock me off my feet. Whenever this happened, I became focused on the waves and completely lose sight of the One who makes the waves and His majesty.

Circumstances can be like those waves if you aren’t watching and keeping your focus on Him. Distractions of life can easily make you turn your back. Then a tsunami-sized circumstance can knock you down. My church body is there right now. The waves have been building for years. We’ve become distracted and lost sight of His majesty. There is a remnant who is trying to see beyond the waves and looking for His glory. But the waves just seem to get bigger and bigger and it’s harder and harder to focus on anything but the waves.

Psalm 95:3-6 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods. In His hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are His also. The sea is His for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker. (ESV)

Here the writer declares who He is. I wonder if the waves were overwhelming him when he wrote this. Then as He refocuses off the waves that are crashing down on him onto the big picture of who the Lord is, he demands his soul to worship the Maker of the earth and the mountains and the sea. He's getting an attitude adjustment from the crashing waves to the big picture. May we be found as faithful.