The Lost Sea

The Lost Sea

Daniel M. Bryant

In Scriptural Analogy, the “Sea” is often used to depict powerful, out of control chaos. In the beginning, we see a picture of an unformed world. Before God began His specific creation of the earth as a place of beauty, harmony and rest, we see the earth covered with water.

“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ...”

As I look at a globe, one of the most striking things we notice about the earth is that it is still predominately covered with water. About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. So, with those figures, around 68.5 percent of the earth's surface is “sea”. Another interesting fact is that of all the water covering the planet, only about one percent of all this water can actually be classified as "fresh" water, water devoid of salt. Brackish water is a mixture of salt water and fresh water. Salt water is much more dangerous than fresh water. Even though human beings and all living things depend on water for survival, we cannot drink salt water. Drinking salt water is worse than not drinking any water at all because it will dehydrate you.

Isn't it ironic that the entire earth is predominately covered with one of the most important elements for our survival, but it is in a form that will kill us if we drink it? I can't help but be reminded of the famous line from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink." So, the "Sea" as a picture of dangerous, out of control chaos is a fit analogy for the world in which we find ourselves living.

There are so many things that affect our lives over which we have absolutely no control. We need a force that is much greater than ourselves, and much greater than this chaos in which we find ourselves living, to cling to for survival. Actually, the only force available capable of footing this bill is God. Not a force in the sense of abstract power, but a being not bound by the constraints of space and time.

When God caused dry ground to

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 12.08.2016
ISBN: 978-3-7396-6861-1

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This book is dedicated to my wife, Peggy Bryant