Sunday Sermon On Wonder

 

This Sunday, we will discuss our sense of wonder. The wonders of looking at nature or the night sky. Seeing a baby learning to walk and naturally trying again and again. Reviewing nature like a science puzzle full of laws and pieces guided together and wondering if there is an author of the science rules and creator of the puzzle pieces. The sense of wonder from looking at life and death and the conflicts therein and wondering if there is a just and holy God.

Looking at nature, whether children that grow into functional members of our society or the panorama of life filling our planet or outward into the night sky, one can be filled with wonder. One might see in children the resilience to grow and learn. One might look at the life filling our world in so many varied environments and ponder the night sky thinking there must be life everywhere it can take root out there too! Life is so adaptive. 

Looking at nature scientifically, one might see natural laws working on the matter to the formation of stars and galaxies. One might see it as a great puzzle and wonder if there is an author of the natural rules and a maker of the puzzle pieces? Is there an infinite mind putting together a three-dimensional moving puzzle built of tiny pieces? Is God, Creator, the valid source of our universe and all therein? 

Again looking at life and death and the conflicts therein, one might wonder if there is a just and holy God? One might think there is only anarchy and tyranny and a range of degrees in between looking at human history. If there is a judge of the living and the dead, it must be a well-kept secret, one might think. So much evil in the world, like crime, war, disasters, and diseases, all conspire to cause life to appear as a game of chance, with the only accountability existing with one's society and peers. God Heroes only make-believe characters in storybooks. 

Wonder is good. It opens the mind to consider the possibilities. If there is an infinite living mind that is a God Creator, he can make himself known when he chooses. Obviously, he is in no rush. He has forever to introduce himself. God has the eternal afterlife to get to know all his creation. Not just the believers...