How He Loves

I'm not a trendy Christian.  I don't keep up with the latest worship trends or songs.  Sorry.  I mean, I go to a baptist church, so it's not all my fault, right?  (That's kind of a joke and kind of not...anyways...)  So we went to this worship service the other night at a church here in town that I didn't even know existed.  It's this little church where they were having a youth lock-in.  Blah, blah, blah...none of this has anything to do with my point.  So, there was this one song where there is a line, "If His grace is an ocean we're all sinking."  Wow.  I mean, wow.  What a fantastic line.  I've been thinking about it.  How true is this line, this concept.  His grace is like an ocean and living in it is a lot like drowning. 

In my trouble I called to the Lord, and he answered me;

From the belly of Sheol I cried out, and You heard my voice.

You cast me into the depths, into the heart of the sea,

The floods engulfed me; All Your breakers and billows swept over me.

I thought I was driven away out of Your sight:

Would I ever gaze again upon Your holy temple?

The waters closed in over me, the deep engulfed me.

Weeds twined around my head.

I sank to the base of the mountains; the bars of the earth closed upon me forever.

Yet you brought my life up from the pit, O Lord my God!

When my life was ebbing away, I called the Lord to mind;

And my prayer came before You, into Your holy temple.

They who cling to empty folly forsake their own welfare,

but, I with loud thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You;

What I have vowed I will perform.

Deliverance is the Lord's!

Lord, cause me to drown so I may emerge a new creature, alive in your grace; (even if I'm covered in whale vomit.)