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

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

May we set our eyes on Him today by the power of the Holy Spirit, that our longing for fascination would be satisfied in

relationship with our good and powerful God. Welcome to the First of Team

podcast. of Teen Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Romans 1, 22 through 23. God's word says,

claiming to be wise they became fools and exchanged the glory of the

immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

All of humanity is marked by an insatiable desire

for fascination. We long for that which is unexplainable, intensely

interesting, and unfathomable. But too often we settle for being temporarily fascinated by the things of the world.

We look at concepts, cultures, and man-made creations, and find fascination and that which is meant to lead us to the one who is most

fascinating, our Heavenly Father. You and I were created to be fascinated by the invisible nature and miraculous

supernatural works of God. We were created to know personally the God who created a universe so vast that its enormity is beyond measure.

We're created to experience communion with the god who created that which is so minuscule.

Even our largest microscopes can't capture it.

We serve a god of wonder who alone can satisfy our insatiable longing for fascination.

But somewhere along the way, we've chosen as a people to seek fascination in the world over God.

Romans 1, 22 through 23, gives us insight into this destructive pursuit.

Scripture says that early on in history, humans claiming to be wise became fools and exchange the glory of the

immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

Sin turned our gaze from God to his creation.

We exchanged that which would wholly fascinate us for all of

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