This weekend, I attended a ladies conference at Camp Chautauqua in Franklin, Ohio. The conference is always good, but this one was exceptional. The only thing that would have made it better for me was if the keynote speaker had taken her Bible passages from the King James Bible. She used a different translation so it was hard to follow along, and because of that, I’m not certain that it even said the same thing.
However, the message that she brought was phenomenal, and something that I have never thought about before. I’ve been saved for nearly forty years and have been growing spiritually and walking with the Lord for the great majority of that time. But I still cherish each moment of spiritual growth when I learn something new about my Lord and Savior, His Word, or how to enrich my daily walk with Him. So I am always open to hearing from the Lord, to learning and growing spiritually.
In her talk, Margaret Feinberg emphasized the importance of living with divine expectation. You get up every morning, but do you expect to meet Jesus during the day? To receive His blessings? To experience marvelous answers to your prayers? To see Him work wonders right before your eyes? Do you experience the wonder of God – that moment of spiritual awakening that makes you want to know Him more?
As believers, we need to live our lives wonder struck.
- Struck by the wonder of God’s presence.
- Struck by the wonder of God’s incredible power.
- Struck by the wonder of God’s mercy.
- Struck by the wonder of God’s eternal love.
- Struck by the wonder of God’s goodness. (The goodness of God is the foundation of our faith. Without God’s goodness, we wouldn’t have His mercy or His love or salvation.)
Live with divine expectation. Pray for wonder every day.