WONDER

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so they say. But sometimes the most beautiful things in the world can't even be seen.

With all the splendor that surrounds creation, it's mesmerizing to think that what we see is barely scratching the surface. For beauty is, in fact , way more than skin deep. God, the Master Designer, uses the seen and the unseen to dazzle us from afar and to plant His beautiful works both without and within. Simone Weil wrote, " the soul's natural inclination to love beauty is the trap God most frequently uses in order to win it and open it to the breath on high."

God is not only the Creator of all things, but also Giver of the gift that enables us to recognize beauty. His trap is a circle of love ~ enticing, beguiling, and enchanting. As the poet wrote, " Love drew the circle that took us in." God takes us in for our own good and sets us before all the glories of Heaven and earth. Jesus declared that "eye had not seen and ear had not heard" the amazing things God has in store for those who love him. If not even Solomon in all his splendor could match the glory of the swaying lilies of the field, how much more must be the splendor God has in store for those with eyes to see? Just imagine what could be waiting while you breathe deep and take in whats here right now.

When the bible declares that the mountains will sing and the rocks will cry out the message of God's love, it's mearly another picture of the length, the height, the breadth, and the depth that God will go to lure us out of our suffocating shells and awake us to the wonder of what he has made. He promises beauty even from the ashes. Ecclesiastes assures us that "he has made everything beautiful in his time," and that " he has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from the begining to end" (3:11).

Heaven truely is found in every grain of sand and every wildflower, because God's love and his hands have made every one of them. If he can't make us see it with the obvious, he'll set it before us with the miraculous.

It really is a beautiful sight..

Question:

How has God trapped you in his love?
What can you do to draw others into that circle?