Wonder!

I've been contemplating the word WONDER for some time now. The Dictionary describes the word "Wonder" like this (to be filled with admiration, amazement, or awe; marvel)

God words says this of "Wonder"
(Psalm 40:5 (Amplified Bible)
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered.

So here's what I have been asking myself "Have I lost my sense of WONDER? have I lost my passion for God's Creation? for noticing the little things in life that are right in front of me everyday? Have we as a church, as a staff, as a worship team, as volunteers, as leaders, as followers of Christ lost the WONDER of it all?"

When I was a kid there was a lady in the church I grew up in that would sing ever so often "The Wonder Of It All" the words if my memory serve me right are something like this....
Oh the wonder of it all, the wonder of it all, just to know that God loves me....

I wonder have we (have I) forgotten how much the King of kings loves me? I hear so much complaining and griping and questioning why you do this, why did you sing that song, why did that band lead, why isn't this person doing this or that? it almost makes me crazy. I can't seem to figure out why we live lives with so much discontentment and wanting so much control over things we have no business or authority controlling.

We somehow get this mindset that we have some ENTITLEMENT some God given right to think we know all the answers and we start to question everything in our lives especially in our churches.

I really believe that we humans have lost that sense of WONDER! we have gotten so bogged down by life we can't see all the amazing things all around us everyday. Just this morning I was walking into the rec center and behind me I could hear this lady saying "can you hear the singing?" I wasn't sure what she meant cause I had my ipod in so I took out my earbuds and engaged her in convo she said again "can you hear the singing?" I thought what is she talking about and then she said "the birds are in such harmony this morning." Man oh man if I had a rock I would have climbed under it. I felt so small at that point, as we continued to walk and talk we entered the rec center I turned around and said to her "thank you for noticing the birds singing and thank you for reminding me of how they sing" she said "your very welcome."

I continued on my journey and asked God to forgive me for not seeing the sun come up this morning, for not embracing the change in the seasons, for not hearing the birds sing today, and then I told HIM thank you for the reminder to stand in AWE of HIM and all He is doing.

Church "Wonder" is the whole basis for worship - Acts 2 says everyone was filled with AWE - have we lost that? Did we ever have it? Are we willing to seek it?

oh my friends lets all find our sense of Wonder and be filled with Awe! Next time you have a complaint - STOP! and find something to stand in awe about. Next time you walk outdoors look around you, who knows what you might see or hear...the next time you pull onto our church property look around at God's provisions for us Cobbleheads, and the next time we are in worship together let's all stand in AWE in WONDER maybe just maybe we will all worship a little different....

to be continued......