"Wow!"

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1


Good thing I got a window-seat today, which is saying a lot considering my recent bad luck with on-flight seating. I’ve recently “suffered” the misfortune of being stuck in the middle seat of economy class and the last time I had a window seat it was smack dab over the airplane’s wing - tough luck. But today, in a large aircraft boasting hardly two dozen passengers I can even afford to take up a whole row as, in fact, I did for my mid-flight snooze.

But it’s such a blessing that right now, nothing obscures my view as I look at out at the world beneath and one word comes close to describing what I can see - breathtaking!!! We are currently flying over a carpet of clouds as we cross French territory, soon to fly over Paris, and I could not help but strain my eyes into the distance to see whether perhaps I could see my Lord coming, “riding on the clouds” like he promised (Mark 14:62). It might have been difficult for an obstinate Jewish council to picture it when he spoke the words with such audacity two thousand years ago but then they hadn’t seen what he had seen - and what I see today.

But then again, this view is just one of many such vistas that have caught my attention. I particularly thrilled at the beautiful slate-grey rocks of the French mountains and the huge sand dunes of the Algerian Sahara. Such magnificent beauty just makes you wonder, “who could have done this?” The signature of a creator God is indelibly etched into His creation and we can hardly escape from the wonder and magnificence of the mind behind all this beauty.

When was your last “wow” moment where you took pause and considered just how great and wise our God is? Scripture is right when it says “since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). One can hardly argue with such overwhelming evidence against an intelligent being at the center of it all. And if we agree that Someone could create it all, how powerful must He be? To be Creator of the world - even the way I might conceive of it - He would have to be INFINITELY powerful - omnipotent like some might say. And if He were that great then surely he could bring forth into existence by a word and a breath! And that’s precisely what the Genesis account tells me about the Creator: He spoke and it came into being and by that same word creation is sustained!

I think it’s easiest to see God in the huge and magnificent as well as in the tiny and intricate but He is all around, isn’t He? You only have to watch the instinctive hunting of a worker ant or thrill in the cold and fluffy snow when it falls on your cheek. Smell him in the fresh sweet air that follows the rain and taste his goodness in a cold glass of spring water. God is all around us speaking to us through His magnificent and matchless creation and just like he beckoned to the man in Eden He longs to walk with you in the cool of the garden, taking it all in.

With love, Doosuur