The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration reports that 95% of the seas remain unexplored and unseen by human eyes. Yet, Psalm 104:24-29 tells us that our God is currently sustaining every creature of the ocean. Psalm 139:1-4 also proclaims that God has searched each one of us and knows us intimately. What does this mean for our own lives? I pray this poem helps us realize:
Deep and murky waters
Yet largely unexplored
Holding strange and diverse creatures
Skimming ocean floors.
No human eye has glimpsed
All your spaces, oh, so broad;
Your expanse while truly finite
Is largely left untrod.
The seas contain such creatures
As small as plankton all adrift,
As large as whales whose tails
Above the waves do lift.
Ocean, you are vast
Containing mystery profound,
An environment so odd to us
Who traverse mainly solid ground.
Yet God is ever-watchful
Down in the depths obscure;
He feeds each curious creature
That swims below, beyond the shore.
Though humans stand mainly unaware
Of sundry species in the seas,
God sustains through each second
Every single one of these.
Numbered and known by their Creator
All swimming creatures are fed
By He who told the very oceans
How far their boundaries could spread.
As life above the sea goes on
And we grasp so little of what’s below,
So life outside our heart goes on
And our depths we do not show.
How glorious a thought, then,
That God, who feeds the creatures of the deep,
Searches out this heart of mine
Though the crags inside be steep.
Even I do not understand
The depths of my own heart;
But God is down where I cannot see
Sustaining every part.
Sea creatures thrive far down below
Without human intervention;
My soul goes on despite confusion
For my life is God’s intention.
Swim on, beautiful creature
In the deep waters of the sea;
For God sees every move you make
And sustains you constantly.
Live on, beautiful child of God
Though you do not understand;
For God sees every part of you
And still holds tightly to your hand.