The chaos of the sea.

In Genesis 1, we are told that “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.”

At the beginning, there was a chaotic nothingness that existed counter to the creative order of Elohim - God.

To man, this belligerent bedlam - this fearful “deep” - was the sea.

Across religions and cultures, those of antiquity often viewed the sea as the context where no god had power or control. The sea was untamable.

Noah and his family sat in a boat as all of mankind perished.

The Israelites left Egyptian oppression but stood confounded at the shores of the Red Sea.

Jonah fled to the waters thinking God couldn’t force him to go to Ninevah if away from land.

And multiple times we see the disciples terrified at the crashing waves while out on a boat.

Yet, each time, God displays his power.

The creation poem of Genesis continues by showing God separate the waters into different spaces. The rains ceased after 40 days and soon after the waters subsided. The Red Sea was parted and the Lord still sought out Jonah in the sea.

In the disciple’s words - as they witnessed Yeshua walking on water and breaking up the storm: “Who is this, that even the wind and the waves obey him"?” (Mark 4:14)

God’s displays of rulership over the sea communicates to the rest of the world that Elohim is different - none can compare.

These works show that there is no turmoil that Yeshua cannot bring order and peace to. His authority has no limits, even in chaos.