7/29/2014
Lord,
I met a couple of your daughters the other day on the job as a pool maintenance guy. Both of them were probably around 10 years old. They were in my friend's summer camp group. The first one, bold as she was, made a comment about how tall I was. Accustomed to receiving that kind of attention everywhere I go, I responded dryly, “Yes I am. What's your name?”. She told me her name was Haley. There was a girl next to her who had been quiet up to that point, but after seeing what her friend had just done she offered me an excited, “Hi!”. I asked her what her name was and I heard her tell me “Ocean!” What? You mean like the Pacific? I had to make sure I had heard her correctly because I thought she had just told me that her name was Ocean. “Are you sure?” I asked her. She, again, assured me that her name was indeed Ocean. The name nonetheless surprised me. I've never met anyone with that name or heard of someone with that name. So with not much else to say, I told her that I liked her name and that was it.
This 15 second encounter
got me thinking. I thought it comical that such a small girl could
have such a vast an immense label, but I guess that is also the
beauty of it. She is so small in size and stature that compared to
the any ocean, she is less than insignificant, but as I began to
think deeper about the heart and soul God gave her, little Ocean grew
and grew until all the oceans of this world could not compare to her.
Lord, like each one of
us, you gave her a heart and a soul. Her soul is God-fitted so that
only You can fill it to the brim. You created her soul in a special
way so that if she turns her eyes toward You, Your peace, joy,
happiness, mercy, and love would rush into it like a raging river.
And there You'd be..the Eternal God resting within her, like the
waters of the Pacific ocean weighing down upon the crest floor. With
her eyes fixed on You, the ocean of love that now lies within grows
larger and larger. It grows to the point where she is inspired to no
longer keep it in anymore and then, with her heart, she chooses to
share that life-bringing water with the world; it becomes like waves crashing on
the shores of other souls.
Suddenly, little Ocean
does not seem so little anymore.
Thank you Lord for this insight. Praise Your Name!
Your son,
Prayer:
Lord, fill our souls with the ocean
that is Your love and mercy. Make Your dwelling place there. Inspire our hearts to love as You love. Give us the confidence that with You anything is possible even if we are only but one of Your little ones. Jesus I trust in You. Amen.
Oceans by: Hillsong UNITED
Fill Me Up by: Jesus Culture
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