"For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth." (Psalm 47: 2)

I just returned from a mini-vacation. For the first time in my five plus decades I can say my eyes have seen the ocean in person. The immensity and the power of it struck me immediately. And this Scripture from Job began running laps in my mind: "Who shut in the sea with doors, when it burst forth and issued from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment, and the thick darkness its swaddling band; when I fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors; When I said, 'This far you may come, but no farther, and here your proud waves must stop!' " (38: 8-11)

The oceans are massive and mighty. Yet the Maker of all the seas commands them as though they are minuscule and impotent. Psalm 104: 9 states again: "You have set a boundary that (the seas) may not pass over..." And Proverbs agrees that He "assigned to the sea its limits, so that the waters would not transgress His command." (8: 9)

Scripture also tells us that the Creator "gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap...stills the noise of the seas...rules the raging of the sea; (and) when its waves rise, You still them." (Psalm 33: 7; 65: 7; 89: 9)

There are a lot of people who believe the seas are massive and mighty and the Maker of them is minuscule and impotent. We certainly see an example of this from the secular world in the global warming hysteria: "The polar ice caps will melt and the oceans will swamp the lands!" The oceans are not going an inch beyond the boundaries that the Lord Most High permits. If the seas rage, it is by His permission. If He stills them; they are stilled.

Unfortunately many people within the church share the world's paltry and pitiful view of God. Do we really understand Scripture's clear teaching and nature's infinite affirmations of how truly awesome God is? Do we know the ruler of the seas, the great King over all the earth, the awesome Lord Most High? Or is our God pocket-sized and at the mercy of the seas while we drown in our unbelief? 

More on this next time.