When’s the last time you found yourself caught up in wonder?
Something that just caused you joy as you enjoyed its natural beauty and
elicited a response of awe deep within?
I hope you as you read those questions that something recent
quickly came into your mind’s eye. If you had to think about it for a while, or
it’s been a long time since the last time you were filled with wonder I
encourage you to seek out the time and place to experience it soon.
King Solomon wrote, “He (God) has made everything beautiful
in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot
find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
The way you were created, the way you are hard wired, is to
be captured by beauty and wonder. There is beauty all around us every day. Are
you looking for it? Not beauty by the world’s standards, but the true, the good
and the beautiful.
When he says that “God has set eternity into man’s heart…”
he’s telling us that our very souls are inquiring about the unknown. Can there
be anything to cause more wonder then eternity? All we know is linear time,
from birth until some unknown date that we expect to die, time has a beginning
and an end. Eternity is beyond time. Think about that and wonder, be in awe at
your own finitude.
“Yet he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning
to the end,” means our wonder will never end. We will never have all the
answers. Our brains cannot comprehend all of it. We are not intended to be God,
or to know what God knows. But being created in the Image of God means that we
can comprehend what God reveals to us.
Sunday I went for a run in preparing for the Akron Relay
next weekend. Having run a longer run on Saturday, my body wasn’t feeling this
run. I am thankful I chose a nice section of the Metro Parks towpath to run because
the scenery was beautiful. The evening sun was slowly beginning to set, there
was the boardwalk crossing a pond with Lilly pads and ducks. Stopping and
leaning on the rail, feeling the warmth of the sun on my face and seeing the
beauty of creation caused my heart to wonder at the creativity of the Creator.
Nature is one thing causes me to wonder. If I pause long
enough, anywhere I am I can find wonder. If you take time to look at a leaf, or
the sun shining through the trees, or the ants marching one by one, or… There
is so much in nature to cause wonder, and when we find wonder we find
ourselves, for we were made to wonder.
What causes you to wonder?
In today’s Quiet Time, we read:
“May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to
shine upon us, Selah that your way may be known on earth, your saving power
among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples
praise you!” (Psalm 67:1-3)
We learned that selah
means to pause, to think and reflect on what you read. In order to wonder, you
need to selah often. What could cause
us to wonder more than the grace, blessing and favor of our God!
When you are pausing, thinking and reflecting on God, His
Word, His promises and His love, you will impact others for Christ. When you
are caught up in wonder and awe of the Almighty, the problems of this life
begin to take a proper perspective. When you find yourself in awe of God, you
can agree with Paul when he says, “I consider the sufferings of this present
time are not worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Romans
8:18).
Take some time today, find a quiet place, go outside, admire
a painting, look up in the sky, whatever it takes to cause you to wonder. Meet
with God, tell Him about what inspires you. Find the good, the true and the
beautiful as you sit in awe of your God.
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