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First15 Devotional

The Desire for Wonder

First15 Devotional

First15

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In today’s devotional, we’re going to look at the desire we all share for wonder. We serve an absolutely fascinating God – a God who has created a whole world to marvel us. May we set our eyes on him today by the power of the Holy Spirit, that our desire for wonder would be satisfied in relationship with our powerful and good God.

 

Our Scripture for today comes from Romans 1:22-23, and today's worship is Wonder by Hillsong UNITED.

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Thank you so much for listening to today’s podcast, the longing for fascination.

As you go about your day today, look for opportunities to have your longing for fascination satisfied in God. Allow yourself to take in the world around you, the grandeur of it as well as its fascinating details. 

 

And tomorrow we’ll take a look at our longing for beauty, and how God desires to satisfy it in meaningful ways every day. 

 

Have a wonderful rest of your day, and may God bless you as you seek him.

 

Transcript

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In today's podcast, we're going to look at the longings we all share for fascination.

0:10.4

We serve an absolutely fascinating God, a God who has created a whole world to fascinate us.

0:17.3

May we set our eyes on Him today by the power of the Holy Spirit that our longing for

0:22.0

fascination would be satisfied in relationship with our powerful and good God.

0:27.1

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

0:35.3

All of humanity is marked by an insatiable desire for fascination.

0:40.4

We long for that which is unexplainable, intensely entertaining, and unfathomable.

0:46.8

But too often we settle for being temporarily fascinated by the things of the world.

0:51.5

We look at concepts, cultures, and man-made creations to find fascination

0:56.2

and that which is meant to lead us to the one who is most fascinating, our Heavenly Father.

1:01.3

You and I were created to be fascinated by the invisible nature and miraculous supernatural

1:07.5

works of God. We were created to know personally the God who created the universe so vast that its enormity

1:14.8

is beyond measure.

1:16.4

We're created to experience communion with the God who created that which is so minuscule,

1:21.8

even our largest microscopes can't capture it.

1:24.5

We serve a God of wonder, who alone can satisfy our insatiable longings

1:30.3

for fascination. But somewhere along the way, we've chosen as a people to seek fascination

1:36.3

in the world over God. Romans 122 and 23 gives us insight into this destructive pursuit.

1:43.3

Scripture says that early on in human history, claiming to be wise we became and 23 gives us insight into this destructive pursuit.

1:44.4

Scripture says that early on in human history, claiming to be wise we became fools and

1:49.2

exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and

1:54.5

animals in creeping things.

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