"The Depth of the Sea"

"Even God Himself couldn't sink her!" Such was a claim and confidence of the Titanic's Irish builders and English owners. We all know on her maiden voyage, the morning of April 15, 1912 the grandest of all ships with the grandest of claims met her end. 1500 people did not survive and the world trembled and mourned. The "unsinkable" lies 13,000 feet down!

Back in the 1960's it was discovered that the deepest part of the ocean was 35,795 feet deep. That means if the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, were submerged in this ocean at this depth, it's peak would still be more than one mile beneath the surface!

Centuries before our Lord Jesus Christ came into our world, one of God's prophets portrayed the grace of Jehovah with this thought: "Who is a God like You, who pardons our iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in unchanging love. He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7:18-19)

What a thought spoke by His prophet for His people. "Into the DEPTHS of the sea!" Not behind the house, not buried in the ground, not in a ditch or a river. When the precious blood of the sinless Savior cleanses us, ALL our iniquities are hurled into the depths of the sea. Do you remember the day you were baptized into Christ Jesus? Do you realize what that day was about and is still about? God is faithful in His compassion and when we were united with Jesus in baptism, our sins were buried into the deepest part of the sea! When we stumble and confess, leaning on the sacrifice of Jesus and His cleansing blood, those sins too are cast into the depths of the sea. That means the charges will NEVER, EVER be raised to accuse you any longer (Rom. 8:31-34). That means we are free, delivered, forgiven and saved! By the grace of God in Christ Jesus which is: "Deeper than the ocean and wider than the sea!"