"What a subject for thought was the broad, grand Pacific Ocean! In appearance it was the very opposite of pacific; it was madness and fury. As we take a surface view of the water, nothing seems so utterly unmanageable, so completely without law or order, as the great deep. But God's law is obeyed by the ocean. He balances the waters and marks their bed. As I looked at the heavens above and the waters beneath, I inquired: “Where am I? Where am I going? Nothing but the boundless waters around me. How many have thus embarked upon the waters and never again seen the green fields or their happy homes! They were dropped into the deep as a grain of sand, and thus ended their lives.” 4T 287.3"
"Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth."
The EGW passage reflects on the power and control God has over the ocean, echoing the sentiment in Psalm 104:9 about God setting a boundary for the waters.