I have remonstrated endlessly and earnestly and very politely with many so-called Christian leaders of evangelical hue, who are up to their necks in contemporary worship and the worldliness that is in, and are just completely blind to any argument as to the Scripture. They don't understand it at all. They have come almost under judicial blindness.
Now this is said in judgment to the people of Judah, and for people today, even in churches, who instead of looking to God for blessing by the power of the Spirit, innovate with worldly things and entertainments and things that are offensive to God. But it is a word to us too, in our ordinary lives. Won’t we every morning revere the Lord, and remember him who keeps the seas within their bounds, that he will not let anything so harm us, or so hurt us, that our spiritual destiny is impaired, and our walk in holiness, and our love and devotion to him. We may be harmed; we may be attacked; we may be reviled; all sorts of things may happen, but the great assurance of the believer is that we can trust him, that nothing that will hurt us eternally or spiritually will be allowed to take place. Whatever happens, God knows when and how he will limit its fury, just as he does the sea to protect us. He doesn’t go off duty. So there is implicit, even in that judgment passage, an encouragement, a picture, and a promise. ‘Fear ye not me?’, the God of holiness and power, the God who keeps his promises, our God, our personal friend in heaven, who watches over us constantly. If he governs the seas, he governs the puny situations and attacks that come upon us.