A God Who Amazes

Today's blog post is contributed by David Trotta:

It’s very easy to let the everyday pressures and demands of life diminish our view of God.  Life gets in the way, so we stop cultivating our relationship with Him.  We stop focusing on how awesome God is and instead focus on the circumstances of our life.  We reduce God to ordinary.

But, God is anything but ordinary.  He’s extraordinary!  And, He loves to continually amaze us.

He is so vast and powerful that doing amazing things is as natural to Him as breathing is to us.  He can’t help himself.  Amazing is written over everything He says and does.

Jesus, who only did what He saw the Father doing, continually amazed when He walked the earth.  He amazed the crowds with His teaching in Matthew 7:28.  He amazed the disciples when he calmed the winds and the waves in Matthew 8:27. He routinely amazed the people when He drove out demons and healed the sick, leading them to proclaim “nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel” (Matthew 9:33).

Well, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  He still wants to amaze today.  He wants to leave us saying “Nothing like this has ever been done in the Americas, or the Philippines, or England.”

Habakkuk 1:5 says “Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed.  For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.”

God didn’t hang up His “amazing” hat.  He’s still a God who amazes.

I love the lyrics to the song “Stay Amazed.” May it resonate in your heart today…

O Holy God, I stay amazed
You are so much more than words could ever say
O Holy God, I pour out my praise
On the One who never ceases to amaze