I lived on ships for 4 years as a kid. That's another story. But let me say this, the image for me where water meets sky is all things: both terrifying (did you know the deepest part of the ocean is 7 miles down?), and exhilarating!
I imagine floating on top of crystal clear waters, glass smooth surface, waters 100 or 1000 miles deep, as deep as the sky is high. These waters are the sky, the sky breathed into being. Like the air's breath on a cold morning, air seen. I think of God 'speaking' life into being, his breath breathing water into waves. This is how the Bible opens, Genesis chapter 1. And then throughout the Scriptures and the years (and authors and genres of writing and prophecies), this same God maintains that he sustains physical life by his spirit. God claims his identity as simple and pure being (Exodus 3:14), and 'sustains all things by his powerful word.' (Hebrews 1:3). Jesus - God's Word expressed in flesh (John 1:14) - said his words were 'spirit and life' (John 6:63), and we are told that 'without him nothing was made that has been made.' (John 1:1-5) Jesus himself tells us that 'God is spirit', and he wants worshipers in 'spirit and truth'. (John 4:24) Heaven - like earth - will always be 'sustained by his powerful word', and for this reason we need to rest, relax, let go and let God hold life in the palm of his hand, like a feather in the wind, like a lilo on a bottomless sky.
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