“Show the wonder of your great love…” Psalm 17:7

When we become adults we realize our capacity for wonder diminishes. Our senses become insulated and dulled. The familiar becomes insufferably repetitive and predictable while the unfamiliar lacks luster, lure, and enchantment. A child’s wonder, on the other hand, is pure and innocent, spontaneous and uninhibited. A child always finds something new to discover and indulges whole self in each discovery.

The Psalmist asks God to reveal to him the wonder of His great love because he realizes that it is the ultimate single reality that holds all things together. It is the one thing that truly matters at all times under all circumstances.

God’s love, the Bible teaches us, is bigger, wider and deeper than we could imagine. Its highest expression is Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. The Apostle Paul dares us to ask God anything and to be afraid of nothing because of Jesus.

To marvel at God’s love, then, is to be constantly awed at Jesus’ sacrifice. We let such constant awe to be coupled by our trusting faith and passionate obedience, as well as by our joyful celebration of the life we have received from God. We open ourselves to all life’s possibilities, trusting God for His ability to provide sufficiently and to orchestrate all human affairs to accomplish His plans and purposes.

To marvel at God’s love is to be childlike. We go through the daily grinds of our lives with bubbling zest and excitement, knowing that each detail or contour of our lives is creatively and wonderfully designed by God. We look forward to each new day as an act of grace, a day of salvation, a door to countless possibilities, a zestful scenting of unplumbed depths, an opportune time to give and receive, and yes, a wondrous miracle.

The Psalmist describes God’s love as great. When we realize that God’s great love is wholly present and manifest in the ordinary we have grasped God’s love with both our hands, and both our feet as well.

Lord, when you do both amazing and ordinary things, help us to wonder at such expression of your great love.

Written by Millicent A. Guarin