The heat is relentless as it bakes down on the dry, cracked earth. Life is impossible here. However, despite this, the slightest hint of water changes everything. In the harsh Namibian desert poking through the parched soil we find a flower, delicately juxtaposed atop a thorny plant and the cracked clay below. Sometimes life feels… Continue reading Isa 35:1-2 – Flowering desert
Sometimes you meet someone whose eyes sparkle with life. There’s something you can’t put your finger on. There’s a joy, a peace, a love that radiates from them. What is it? Jesus tells us – “Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills… Continue reading Mat 6:21-22 – Bright eyes
Nothing! Absolutely nothing! It’s wonderful! That’s how it feels in moments when we can sit in a quiet, secluded place immersed in nature. No one to be seen, just God’s majestic canvas painted in awesome wonder all around us. Before me, he paints the waves in hues of deep blue, dabbing their tops with frothy… Continue reading Rom 1:20 – Absolutely Nothing
Did you know that the deepest gold mine is 3.84km deep? That’s like a 1000-story building below ground. That’s crazy. Yet even at these incredible depths, we have only penetrated 0.2% of the skin of the earth. This is similar to our experience of God. Sometimes we find a gem of divine wisdom in a… Continue reading Rom 11:33 – God’s mine
Have you ever listened to a musician play a piece of music so skillfully that you were just in awe? Have you ever wished to somehow have this skill transferred into your brain? Yet, we know it takes both incredible talent and thousands of hours of practice to become a musical maestro. Our calling to… Continue reading 2Pe 1:3 – The Maestro
“The food is awesome!” Awesome is overused but it actually means to be in awe of something – not just a tasty meal, but something greater than us. Ultimately real awe can only be experienced in the presence of God. Maybe it is because we have closed our eyes to seeing God that we are… Continue reading Ecc 12:13 – Awesome!
“Stop! What did you just say?” Sometimes we hear things that cause us to do a double-take. Peter says something double-take worthy. “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but… Continue reading 1Pe 1:18 – That’s crazy
NASA recently released the first images of stars, 2500 light years away, never before seen by humans. Each spot of light in the images are galaxies containing billions of stars. It’s incomprehensible. But what’s really incomprehensible is that “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of… Continue reading Psa 33:6 – Star breather
I am looking at a painting done by a master artist. The colours, the textures, the detail, the composition, the story it tells, are all just incredible. It’s mind-blowing. I don’t stand alone in wonder and awe. “The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call… Continue reading Psa 65:8 – The Artist
“Mind blowing”. “Awesome”. “Wow”. 🤩 – Words or emojis, these are what we use when we see something truly incredible, like an amazing sunset, or a night sky sparkling with a million diamonds. Now imagine a scene even more awesome than that. That’s God. Awesome in the real sense of the word. And that’s what… Continue reading Eph 3:20-21 – Awesome