Other Perspectives on God’s Wonder
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There is much in the blogosphere about God’s wonder. It seems clear that God continues to touch humankind with Divine Magnificence. Many of the posts I read this week focused on nature and the way God displays the divine reality through the mystery of creation. This is a common avenue to experience God’s wonder. Fewer blogs focused on other important ways to get in touch with the power and majesty of God–Presence, comfort, incarnation, miracle, and intervention.
Brenda shares how a simple grasshopper caused her to pause and consider God’s wonder (she even has photographs). She says:
When I sometimes allow life to become too hectic, God always makes a way to bring me back on track. He does this by creating a moment of awe. He brings along something that will cause me to stop what I am doing just to marvel at what He has made.
She continues with this insight:
When we take the time to be still and enjoy God’s wonder all around us we will always find our way back to Him if we somehow strayed off the path.
Brenda has learned to pay attention to the amazing things around her that point her to God. That is a gift that requires consistent listening and attention to what is always before us. It takes practice and persistence to get to this place. However, when we do learn to pay attention, God’s wonder brings us to silent awe again and again.
Steve articulates well the connection between wonder and fear:
“Fear of the Lord” means recognizing that we are caught up in a magnificent web of Creation whose every facet reflects the glory of the Creator. It is the sensation of awe that we feel when we know on the deepest level of our being that we are in the presence of something containing an immensity and depth of meaning that is beyond our ability to understand.
Rene reflects on Psalm 19 and David’s words of praise for God’s creation. David’s words and her own experience moves her to personal thanksgiving.
Dear Gracious God, thank you that you have given me eyesight to see the beauty of the world you have made, ears to hear the sounds of splashing waves and the ability to feel the pleasure of sand and water on my feet. For me, these things point to the greatness of your power and creativity. But most of all thank you for the Word. The Word as in Jesus who came to live, die and rise again for your lost creatures.
Throughout the past week as I have contemplated God’s Wonder, I have been brought to silence, to an awesome fear, to hope, and to thanks. It has been a week I will not soon forget.
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