Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned: Wonder

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Creation Faith

Life is a gift of God. Destiny is meaningless without God. Nature reveals God’s handiwork. History makes it meaningful.

OUR HUMAN CONDITION

I wonder who made me and my world. If there is a Creator, what is this Creator like? Why was I made? Geologists point to rocks that are billions of years old. Astronomers speak of stars that are millions of light years away. In a universe so big, surely I am only a speck of dust.

Disciple

“Disciples know that they belong to God, that God has claim on them.”

Disciple

But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.

So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back…

The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.”But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like the heavenly man.

1 Corinthians 15:20-22, 45-49 (NLT)

Reflection

  • How do you show (in the way you live) that you belong to God?
  • Describe a time when you felt such wonder at the majesty of creation that you could only praise God.
  • If God created the world for our benefit, what does that say about the character of God?
  • What are you doing right now to exercise stewardship over creation?
  • Describe your day of rest. How does it reflect a quiet trust in the great, good, and loving God who has created you and who will sustain you? How could you rest more creatively on you sabbath?
  • Consider 1 John 2:15-17 and James 4:4-5. What do these passages say to you today?

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