Wonder

The pastor on the podcast I listened to this morning told the story of his grandmother who lived to be 100. As he talked of the changes in her life from birth to 100, it triggered a memory of my mother. She was six years old when the Wright brothers took their momentous flight. And at the age of 72, she was told men had landed on the moon. (She never believed it….said it was staged).

I thought of the changes in my lifetime.

One year before I was born, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The communication systems used back then are considered archaic in our eyes today. One method was carrier pigeons. Now we have instant communication using the Internet. We know how to make powerful rockets that send cameras far into the galaxies giving unbelievable pictures of what the universe looks like. Yesterday a Tesla car atop a rocket was sent hurtling into space. It’s now cruising around planets.

Those are impressive changes and generate wonder in our minds.

Currently my Life Group is studying a book about heaven. Need I say more? We live in a disposable world. Things break. People hate. If we choose, we can see ugliness all around. But heaven…. such a different story. The wonder of heaven is impossible to comprehend. Those fabulous pictures of our universe give us a tiny glimpse of the glory to come.

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived – the things God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)