Water-Deeper-Higher Part 3

So far I’ve posted the introduction as well as the verses of water.  Now it is time for the deeper and higher aspects.  

Habakkuk 3:10 mentions all three aspects that I was searching for, so it’ll make a good connection point.  “The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.” God is to be worshiped everywhere, from the deepest to the highest!

So where shall we begin?  How about in the deep.

“In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also,” says Psalm 94:5.  In the deepest place, God is still in control and we are still in his hands.  

God is in the very depths that we cannot descend to.  He is everywhere!  The deep also seems to be where God’s wisdom and depths of knowledge are, where we can only try and get to know Him better.  Daniel 2:22 says that “he revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth that is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.”  Romans 11:33 says “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!”

The deep is where we pray and go deeper with God, and then our praise rises up to the heavens and in praise we rise closer to Him.

God asks Job in Job 38:34 “Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?” Psalm 148:4 says to “Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.”  There is water below and above, and God has made it all.  

Solomon poses some deep questions in Proverbs 30:3-5.  “I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.  Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended?  who hath gathered the wind in his fsits? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?  Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.”  

Job asks, “Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!” (Job 22:12).  God is higher than anything we can even imagine, and He deserves our praise!  That is why we let our praise go higher and higher.  “Praise ye the Lord.  Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights” (Psalm 148:1).  

There is just something special about the deepest of the deep and the highest of the high, because though we cannot go there (without God), God is always there.  Isaiah 7:11 says “As thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”  “even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under…” (Genesis 49:25).

Most importantly, God’s love reaches from the deepest of the deep to the highest of the high and beyond.  Ephesians 3:17-19 tells us, “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”  

I desire the fullness of God, no matter how deep or how high I have to go.  So I will go deep down on my knees to talk with my Father and rise up and send my praises high to my loving God.