Stay Amazed!

What do you find amazing these days? What once went into the shock-column is now seen as common ... un-amazing. It is concerning [to me] how Believers are no longer amazed at God. Noah Webster (1828) says to be amazed is to be "astonished by something extraordinary." Jeremiah wrote, "It is [God] Who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the heavens" (Jeremiah 51:15 ESV). A former pastor made this profound statement: "we've lost our wonder of who our God is." How can this be? How can we not wonder at flocks of birds that fly in perfect formation, or planets and stars that line up perfectly, or waves that know just how far to wash ashore, or the form human life takes in a mother's womb? The wonder of wonders that God would come to this earth in human form to save lives from eternal hopelessness. Are we not astonished by the extraordinary-ness of our God! "I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene - And wonder how He could love me, a sinner condemned, unclear - How marvelous, how wonderful - And my song shall ever be - How marvelous, how wonderful - Is my Savior's love for me" (Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 1856-1932). Let us ever ... stay amazed!