IF HIS GRACE IS AN OCEAN..........

Most of you would very well know the next line to the song which is my title.... "If His grace is an ocean, WE'RE ALL SINKING."
I seriously love this song. When it first started getting popular, when everyone else was loving it, I actually didn't like it that much. It took a while to ACTUALLY grow on me, and for me to take the time and dig into the meaning of the song.
This year, I actually found out that the original writer to this song isn't David Crowder. Infact, the author is John Mark McMillian. In my bible class, we watched a video of him talking about his intent when writing this song. He first starts talking about the places we use love in..... out of context and things that you can't seriously love. He tells a story.... a friend dying in a car accident, processing things through music: a conversation with God, a love that puts up with messy....dirty.....gross things....like us. We get angry at God...just like this man....we are gross and mucked up in our sin and weakness...we have points of failure. We are nasty human beings...did you know that?
I take such joy in knowing that there is someone, perfect, that still loves me.....
I mean a perfect love. Nothing conditional.... and that's really what this is all about. Even when we're in the midst of our inequities he still reaches out and gives us LOVE.
Going back to the image of His grace as an ocean..... this is honestly my favorite line of the whole song. I just see people drenched with grace....as they would be with an ocean overflowing our town....nation...world. We're truly sinking in grace. We're walking with grace. We're going about life with grace....

Peace out.