Wonder
I was sitting in the San Francisco airport, looking out the window and waiting for a plane to attend the area fellowship in Rapid City, South Dakota. Just before I began to turn away, a huge 747 headed for Asia slowly lifted off the ground. It looked so heavy and so out of place for it to defy gravity, but it did. We’ve all seen that. We’ve all had that situation where we’ve seen a huge airplane almost stand still in the sky, and we wonder, How does that happen? How does it happen that something so heavy and so big can fly?
It seems to me that one of the things that has been missing from my spiritual walk is wonder at the mystery of God. Oh, I can watch a plane lift off and wonder how it happened, but I have not recently had good experiences of looking at our planet, God’s creation, and seeing the wonder of His incredible, intricate ability as the Creator.
I should appreciate the wonder of salvation, how God can love people like us so much that He would die for us that we may have forgiveness of sins. I should wonder at how He brings people together, congregating them and creating communities that embrace Christ, like I saw at Hessel Church a few weeks ago. There’s wonder about how a mission that started with missionaries on horseback could have so much influence on our country by starting Sunday schools that the landscape of the new frontier was changed. There’s a wonder that God can do what He wants to do and a mystery Paul speaks about in Ephesians 1:9-10, the mystery of God that has been made known to us.
The mystery is that this incredible God desires to use broken people like you and me to accomplish His will. What a wonder!
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