(Based on Writings of John the Apostle) Hydrate or Diedrate!: Jesus the Living Water (Based on Writings of John the Apostle)

“Great Creator and Preserver of the universe, who now sees our distress, we pray Thee to spare our lives and permit us to pass through this overwhelming surf to the open sea. But if we are doomed to perish, Thy will be done. We commit our souls to the mercy of Thee, our God, who gave them.”

“I cannot suppress or deny what so clearly appeared to me and to my companions as the immediate and merciful act of the Almighty, listening to our prayers and granting our petition at the awful moment when dismay, despair, and death were pressing close upon us…

…My heart still glows with holy gratitude for his mercy, and I will never ashamed nor afraid to acknowledge and make known to the world the infinite goodness of my divine Creator and preserver.”

Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. (NLT) “And the sea was no more” (NRSV)

Genesis 1:2 …the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep…

Psalm 93:3-4 The floods have risen up, O Lord. The floods have roared like thunder; the floods have lifted their pounding waves. But mightier than the violent raging of the seas, mightier than the breakers on the shore— the Lord above is mightier than these!

Psalm 77:19-20 Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters— a pathway no one knew was there! You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep, with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds.

Gone will be separation! No more sea means we will be forever in God’s presence. Gone will be separation!

Isaiah 43:1-2 I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.

and death itself will be gone! No more sea means we will triumph over suffering and death. All forms of suffering and death itself will be gone!

Verse 1 (NRSV): “…the sea will be no more.” Verse 4: “Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more…

“Adversity has taught me some noble lessons “Adversity has taught me some noble lessons. I have now learned to look with compassion on my enslaved and oppressed fellow creatures, and I will exert all my remaining faculties and endeavors to redeem the enslaved and to break to pieces the rod of oppression.” --James Riley