Wow… God is so cool!
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I just wanted to write today and tell you how often God totally catches me off guard. It’s not like I don’t know how powerful He is… and how much He loves me… but it still surprises me sometimes when it seems like He’s worked things out for me before I even lift a hand (especially when it’s something I pray about).
There’s a list of values or virtues that the Apostle Peter tells us to add to our “basic faith”… is there anything in there that stands out to you (I’ve highlighted, underlined & bolded what stands out to me today)?
So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you. 2 Peter 1:5-9 (NLT)
I used to wonder about that “reverent wonder” (pun intended). What was that all about? Doesn’t faith leave out the concept of “wonder”? Apparently not, and God constantly reminds me of this fact but I’m so quick to forget. But today He reminded me again just how powerful He is and how much He cares about me.
I woke up and had a couple of phone messages that I wasn’t quite ready to face. So I went about doing my usual morning routines and then spending some time with my wife who has been over at her mom’s place for the last week helping her with some of the health struggles she’s currently going through. I was a little stressed out about the messages but I tried to remember to keep giving them to God and not let them get in the way of what I considered to be higher priorities at the moment.
When I finally got around to dealing with the messages I was blown away… both of the situations had resolved themselves and I didn’t have to do anything about what had been worrying me. I don’t know if you ever have those moments but I just looked up to Heaven and said:
“wow… that was impressive!”
I almost started to feel bad about my “lack of faith” when I remembered the passage from 2 Peter that I pasted above… and I remembered Peter’s urging to add reverent wonder to my basic faith. I’m still blown away even now as I sit and write this.
So what’s the point? There really isn’t one. I just wanted to share with you guys who have signed up for the Ramblings email what’s going on in my life today. Maybe you should read that passage above from 2 Peter and see if there’s anything God wants to add to your basic faith today.
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