Wonder

For me, one of the most important drives is the sense of wonder. Quite honestly, it is one of those drives that will keep me going for the rest of my life. For others, it may be something entirely different, something radically opposed like a sense of security and uniformity. While I don’t think that’s the right way to live, I’ll definitely respect the way they chose. But I’m off-track here already.

I’ve been reading Tim Hughes Here I Am To Worship and while much of it is simple concepts which need little debate, there was one section that really struck me. That section was Chapter 3, which talked about maintaining a sense of wonder towards Jesus to remain strong in our Christian faith. It struck me then as blindly obvious, yet I was so oblivious to that truth until I encountered it again in this book. I’ve been guilty of the past while of not really trying to search for new experiences in order to maintain a true love for Christ. Instead, I took the easy way out, or as Hughes put it, “… I’ve become legalistic …”. It’s not challenging at all to maintain a theological love of God – He did give us the best free gift of all time, after all. It’s easy though, to lose focus of what that gift was supposed to do, to inspire us to love and devote ourselves to Him in the style of a relationship, rather than a religious ritual.
My lifestyle changes have been progressing slowly but surely, and I have definitely developed a sense of wonder for how much work I actually get done if I try, haha. There are so many ways to push myself onward, and I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of opportunities right now. Let’s see where God takes me from this point!

Short post since there’s a midterm tomorrow, time to add a little more oil…