1763 Consider God’s Wonders

BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women

Job 37: 14: says “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.”

I always find it most powerful to personalize a scripture by inserting your own name. For me it’s “listen to this, Pamela; stop and consider God’s wonders.” Now it’s your turn – “listen to this, (insert your name); stop and consider God’s wonders.”

Stop. Just stop. Right here, stop everything.

In this moment, will you stop? Breathe. Do you feel that air filling your lungs? Don’t you know the very air your breathe is the breath of God. He is the one who breathes life into you. You’ve been breathing your entire life, but how many of those breaths do you actually receive as the breath of God going into you, filling you, reviving you, strengthening you, sustaining you, giving you LIFE?

This is God’s breath. Breathe it in. This is life. God didn’t just breathe life into you one time and say ‘there, now you’re on your own’. He continues to breathe life into you, intentionally, purposefully, and you’ve just become so accustom to breathing you don’t even recognize the wonder of it all.

“Stop and consider God’s wonders.” God’s wonders. A wonder is something beautiful and unexpected and inexplicable that causes admiration. God wants us to admire his wonders. He wants us to look at what he has done and be speechless. All around you he’s trying to show you his wonderful works.

Yesterday, I met with 7 other BIG Life girls from across the country in Southern California and we picked up a small fleet of vintage VW vans. We roadtripped down the coast to Laguna Beach where we are camped on a cliff side with a magnificent view of the ocean.

The sun sat, creating the most brilliant colors of orange and hot pink, as if the entire sky was on fire. Then, the night sky revealed countless stars shining down on us, as if to smile. The entire night, sleeping in cozy sleeping bags in our vans, we hear the powerful crashing of the waves.

It’s so magical. And here we sit in the middle of it. Wonder is all around us.

We made hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows, then all crowded in one tiny van to share our dreams and visions of what our lives could be 5 years from now. These women were once complete strangers to me … now I know the dreams God has placed within their hearts.

Dreams of families being restored, dreams of purpose in helping others, dreams of passions becoming careers, dreams of travel and adventure. Oh, what beautiful souls they each are, carrying the precious dreams of their creator.

And I get to sit in their presence! What a wonderful miracle. And I realize as I’m sitting here listening to their dreams, I’m literally living mine!
I don’t know how God paints the sky in such magnificent colors. I don’t understand gravity that makes the ocean disappear in a perfect line on the horizon. I don’t know how he plants a dream and nurtures it. But I sure can enjoy the wonder. I believe that’s exactly what God wants us to do.

Today, you are surrounded by his wonders. The unexpected and inexplicable are all around you. You can’t explain why or how your world is held perfectly in space and time, but it is. And you’re right here right now to experience it all. Stop and consider it all. Live in awe of the sheer, unexplainable awesomeness of life.

I have no words. No words can aptly describe God’s wonders all around us today. There are no words.

A friend of mine posted a video of her 9 month pregnant belly as her baby was rolling around. You could see this tiny miracle’s shoulder and elbow pushing from within, then it’s feet … you could see it’s feet kicking up again her belly. I can’t explain that. I don’t understand how that’s even possible. And yet every single one of us were once that baby miraculously growing within our mother’s womb. That was us.

Have you ever stopped to consider that you were once the baby with itty bitty tiny feet pressing up against your mother’s belly? There was a day when your heart beat for the very first time. A time when your fingerprints began to form. You were a miracle in the works … and you’re still a miracle in the works.

Jeremiah 1:5 says “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”

God knew you before he made you. He chose you. He looked at you and said “Her. I want her. I choose her.”

You are chosen by the almighty. You are good enough. He has equipped you with every single thing you need to live your life and live it well. He is filling your lungs at this very moment with his breath, strengthening you, renewing you, giving your purpose and direction.

Won’t you stop and consider that today? If you’re going to admire God’s wonders, start in the mirror Sis. How about you stop hating those things about you long enough to honor what God created in you. It’s absolutely wonderful.

There’s a viral video going around of a man standing on a busy street encouraging people to come and see for themselves a child of God. They come and look and find a mirror. And as they look in the mirror, the reply in awe and wonder as if seeing the most miraculous creation. One woman says, “Oh, how absolutely amazing.” Another says, “She’s just so beautiful.” One more says, “That’s just so cool.”

What if you could see you that way. A miraculous, beautiful, amazing child of God. What if you could see everyone else that way today, too.

I have no words. No words to describe God’s amazing works within each of us, for each of us.

Oh, the wonder of it all. May we all stop, just stop right here and consider the wonder of our very life. It is beautiful and unexpected and inexplicable. We can’t explain it or understand it all, so let’s stop trying. Let’s stop trying to figure it all out. Let’s stop worrying about how it’s all going to work out. Let’s lean into our creator who formed us in our mother’s wombs and knew us even before then, and trust the wonder of it all.

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