Grace is an Ocean

"If His grace is an ocean we're all sinking."- David Crowder Band

These words from David Crowder Band's song "How He Loves" have really been running through my mind a lot lately. God gives us so much grace, that if it were an ocean we would all sink in it. Lately though, I have been thinking about this in another way.

My family and I go to Orange Beach every summer and a couple of summers ago the beach had some of the biggest waves I have ever seen. So of course my dad and I go out there. At one point my dad had gotten a little farther out than me, and then a wave took him under. He was under for a really long time and I almost started freaking out, but then he came back up and we decided to take a little break.

Imagine trying to learn to swim in an ocean like that. It isn't possible. No matter how hard you try, you will drown. Then you start yelling for the lifeguard if you have any sense. Enter Jesus. Jesus is our lifeguard and He is right there to save us from the power of the ocean and He teaches us to swim, or accept God's grace.

God's grace is like the ocean that day at Orange Beach. It is too much for us to handle. We will never be able to comprehend why or how He gives us grace. Right now, we are all about ankle deep in God's grace because our minds can't comprehend the immense measure of His grace and we will never be able to completely understand it until the day that He calls us home. It is just one of those things that we won't grasp while we're on Earth, but with the help of Jesus we will see glimpses of it here and there. God's grace is an ocean, and we're all sinking in it.