Living Above the Sun Ministries

 ...and as He stands in victory, sin's curse has lost its grip on me! For I am His, and He is mine, bought with the precious blood of Christ!" At Jesus' death on the cross, the nights He was buried in the grave, to His resurrection and "missing" body, the disciples were full of fear!  Two and Two were not going together making four in their head.  As they confessed out of their mouth unknowingly to Jesus on the road to Emmaus "We had hoped He would be the one to redeem Israel!"  The women had this tall tale about angels, and an empty tomb, and it was making sense for them.  The men were locked inside their home afraid of what would happen to them.  Then Jesus appeared among them and said, "Peace be with you, and to you."  This was a frequent phrase Jesus used in His ministry.   In the silence of the days after Jesus died don’t you know his followers were reflecting on all Jesus had said and spoken. Reflecting on the scripture He had taught the

  "Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way.   And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.”   So the  Lord  sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the  Lord  and against you; pray to the  Lord  that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. Then the  Lord  said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”  So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. No

What is it about water?  The way the waves come and in and out and take us in with it...the ebbing and flowing.  The way it flows down rivers, marshes, and streams to find something bigger, and be apart of it.  What about its roar to its quiet laps that calms us?  Why do we love to be near it?  Laying next to her on a sandy beach?  On a pier on a lake? Does is remind us of our cleansing?  We find hope in our washing away of yesterday to a clean slate. Is it because it is refreshment, and a very life source to our bodies? We find comfort and sleep in hearing rain patter, and the soft rumble of thunder.   Maybe it's the rhythm it all keeps, and it becomes something familiar.   The truth in all of it is that God the creator, is the one who gives and brings peace.  He reveals Himself to us through the ocean waves, and continuing rain of nourishment and refreshment.  He teaches us of boundaries of the shoreline, he won't put more on us than we can handle.  In the gift of seashells c