2009-07-28T16:50:33-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/sand/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20139:17-18&version=NIV 2009-07-28T16:50:33-05:00 The image of sand near the ocean is often used in the Bible as a metaphor for something so numerous as to be infinite. Here, God's thoughts are said to be as numerous as the grains of sand on the shore.