I don't get it, Philip.  I don't know where you  live old fella...  but.... I  live in a real world.... not some ocean like you are talking about... I am clueless  how this stuff you are saying would work out in real life here on good old planet earth...  it seems  to be real for you.... but how do I do that?

Let Philip try to explain  it a little... maybe... just maybe I can help to make some sense of it for you. There are all kinds of different ways people look at life. I know how I started  out looking at it... it all began for me with the realization that  "I am the greatest"... (Mohammed Ali used to say that to the world but I knew  deep in my heart that it wasn't him... it was me... Philip was the greatest).

It took lots of big waves... and a couple Tsunamis.... to bring me out of that one... in the process I met God... God was in my life now... and He would help me to be the greatest for Him.... several hurricanes and a tornado or two brought me a little further along and things shifted once again... God was no longer Philip's little helper.... God was now pre-eminent... totally in control of everything... and I was trying very hard to be His little helper... it still took several more crises.... until I finally got it.... He didn't really need my help... for anything....  I picked up my cross ... followed Him to my own Calvary... and died there...

That is when I knew that what He was after was simply me... Philip.... to be a container of His resurrection life...

That was when He became my life... He was everything... I was nothing...and there was nothing I had to do... anymore... ever...

Most of the Christianity that I lived in for 40 years  was all about those middle two things... we meet God and then He helps us  to struggle through this life here on earth.... until we finally get to heaven.... or ... we are really on fire  for God because He has grabbed hold of our hearts... and in this scenario... we struggle to serve Him the rest of our days (with His help of course)... until  we can finally escape this awful world .... and get to heaven....

We don't have to live there... struggling... waiting for it all to end... so we can somehow start to live in the great by and by... that is not at all what God had in mind when we meet Him... what He has in mind... is that His son Jesus will become all.... in all... right here... right now... on planet earth... walking and talking with Him in the garden of our lives...

:)