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Judges chapter 13, verse 19.

So Manoa took the young goat with the grain offering

and offered it on the rock to the Lord,

to the one who works wonders.

And Manoa and his wife were watching.

I love that phrase describing the Lord.

So this chapter is describing the birth of Samson and the extraordinary circumstances surrounding Samson's birth and how God came to visit Manoa and his wife, who would

be the parents of Samson.

And as they had this encounter with the angel of the Lord, they offer a sacrifice as a picture

of worship to God. And that's where verse 19 comes in. It says, Manoa of worship to God.

And that's where verse 19 comes in.

It says, Manoa took a young goat with a grain offering,

offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders.

Can you just soak that in?

As you think about that phrase and you think about God, the God you know, the God you worship, the God you follow, he is the one who works wonders.

And you think about all the wonders he has worked in the world, starting from the

very beginning, how he spoke and creation came into being. At his bidding, he said, let there

be light and there was light. He said, let there be and just fill in the blank everything we see

and all of creation came at his bidding, at his word. He works wonders. And then I think about,

I was reflecting last night on someone who just came to faith in Christ, a man who, for this last year,

he has been atheist, agnostic, all of his life, and he has been listening, not by his own choice,

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