A FLOOD TIDE OF GRACE
As I have alluded to in one of my blogs, I have lived almost my entire life on the shores of the magnificent Bay of Fundy and really wouldn’t want to live any other place; except maybe a slight shift south in the winter months.
Yesterday my love and I visited her aged aunt in the small coastal village where she grew up and where one hot July day quite some years ago my love and I were wed. All that aside, we also visited some dear friends who live in that community right on the banks of the bay that is part of the Bay of Fundy. It is a beautiful area and yesterday the tide was in when we were there. WHEN THE TIDE IS IN it transforms the whole area as well as my outlook. I always feel good when the tide is in. Unless of course I’M STRANDED on a ledge off shore somewhere. Then I wish I’d finished the swimming lessons.
Getting back to the tide, it truly does paint a different picture and covers everything that was exposed. It can transform the whole area and truly makes one’s outlook brighter if only for a few hours. As a matter of fact there are two billion tonnes of water entering and exiting the Bay of Fundy twice every day. That is more water than all the rivers of the earth combined. Impressive ain’t it?
While we visited with our friends yesterday two billion tones of water flowed past their front window. Now them’s braggin’ rights!
Years ago before we were environmentally conscious (and I’m glad we are) people would throw all kinds of trash into the bay and think nothing of it. Old engines from their fishing boats, transmissions, winches, things that didn’t float and these pieces of junk were not always below low tide; that means when the tide was out they were exposed. It meant for a real unsightly and ugly mess. But when the tide rolled back in it was beautiful again. Because the junk was covered over with more than two billion tonnes of sea water. (The bay does not go completely empty so you add the two billion tonnes to the even greater mount that stays,….get it?) Now it makes sense doesn’t it.
WHAT IS THIS GUY SAYING, WHAT IS HIS POINT YOU ASK? Well I say all this to illustrate a point and that is the bay reminds me of God’s infinite grace. As great an amount of water as the bay holds, it is not an infinite amount and just imagine if your sin and mine were that junk. AND ALSO IMAGINE the grace of God being the flood tide or the tide at it’s highest point. But that’s still a finite amount, meaning it can be measured. The junk abounded on the beaches and still does in some areas. The Bible says where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. His grace covers all my sin when I confess it to Him and His grace knows no limit, it is infinite, so why do we try to make it on our own? How can we wash away our sins? We cannot but His blood is like the bay only much greater and it will wash away every sin that I have ever committed and make me clean. What can wash away my sin….nothing, absolutely nothing but the blood of Jesus the spotless sinless Lamb of God. His grace is all I need. An old hymn puts it this way..."His love knows no limit, His grace has no measure, His power no boundary known unto men; but out of His infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth and giveth and giveth again. Couldn't have said it better myself. RC
p.s. You know even if I didn't believe in God i'd have to change my thinking after living on these shores. I'd have to accept His creation and believe in Him.
As I have alluded to in one of my blogs, I have lived almost my entire life on the shores of the magnificent Bay of Fundy and really wouldn’t want to live any other place; except maybe a slight shift south in the winter months.
Yesterday my love and I visited her aged aunt in the small coastal village where she grew up and where one hot July day quite some years ago my love and I were wed. All that aside, we also visited some dear friends who live in that community right on the banks of the bay that is part of the Bay of Fundy. It is a beautiful area and yesterday the tide was in when we were there. WHEN THE TIDE IS IN it transforms the whole area as well as my outlook. I always feel good when the tide is in. Unless of course I’M STRANDED on a ledge off shore somewhere. Then I wish I’d finished the swimming lessons.
Getting back to the tide, it truly does paint a different picture and covers everything that was exposed. It can transform the whole area and truly makes one’s outlook brighter if only for a few hours. As a matter of fact there are two billion tonnes of water entering and exiting the Bay of Fundy twice every day. That is more water than all the rivers of the earth combined. Impressive ain’t it?
While we visited with our friends yesterday two billion tones of water flowed past their front window. Now them’s braggin’ rights!
Years ago before we were environmentally conscious (and I’m glad we are) people would throw all kinds of trash into the bay and think nothing of it. Old engines from their fishing boats, transmissions, winches, things that didn’t float and these pieces of junk were not always below low tide; that means when the tide was out they were exposed. It meant for a real unsightly and ugly mess. But when the tide rolled back in it was beautiful again. Because the junk was covered over with more than two billion tonnes of sea water. (The bay does not go completely empty so you add the two billion tonnes to the even greater mount that stays,….get it?) Now it makes sense doesn’t it.
WHAT IS THIS GUY SAYING, WHAT IS HIS POINT YOU ASK? Well I say all this to illustrate a point and that is the bay reminds me of God’s infinite grace. As great an amount of water as the bay holds, it is not an infinite amount and just imagine if your sin and mine were that junk. AND ALSO IMAGINE the grace of God being the flood tide or the tide at it’s highest point. But that’s still a finite amount, meaning it can be measured. The junk abounded on the beaches and still does in some areas. The Bible says where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. His grace covers all my sin when I confess it to Him and His grace knows no limit, it is infinite, so why do we try to make it on our own? How can we wash away our sins? We cannot but His blood is like the bay only much greater and it will wash away every sin that I have ever committed and make me clean. What can wash away my sin….nothing, absolutely nothing but the blood of Jesus the spotless sinless Lamb of God. His grace is all I need. An old hymn puts it this way..."His love knows no limit, His grace has no measure, His power no boundary known unto men; but out of His infinite riches in Jesus, He giveth and giveth and giveth again. Couldn't have said it better myself. RC
p.s. You know even if I didn't believe in God i'd have to change my thinking after living on these shores. I'd have to accept His creation and believe in Him.
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