I heard some whispers in church today that made me smile. We had just sat down after singing, and they played the intro to the teaching series that we’re in. This particular video has some clips from a popular series about the life of Jesus and the first disciples. As the images appeared on the screen, I heard the voices of two children sitting nearby whisper, “It’s Jesus!”. Not just once, but they repeated it a few times in their whispers – hushed yet filled with wonder.
And a smile crept across my face.
Then the thought hit – do I have that hushed wonder in my heart and my words about Jesus? I would like to say that I do, but the reality is that I think it depends. When momentous things happen, like an eclipse, I feel the wonder.
“God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night…And God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:16, 18).
When I think of how He has rescued me, bringing me out of the darkness of my sin and into the light of His salvation, I feel it.
“He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains” (Psalm 107:14).
When I sit and look out at the ocean or gaze up at the mountains and think of HIs power over nature, the wonder is there.
“He stilled the waves to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed” (Psalm 107:29).
What God challenged me with earlier this week was about how I haven’t been finding the wonder in the everyday things. But I’m working on it because I want to get back there. When I see the trees moving from the barrenness of winter to the new life of spring, may my heart whisper, “It’s Jesus.”.
When I watch the funny squirrel we have named Queso get creative to eat the birdseed from the “squirrel-proof” bird feeder and dangle like Tom Cruise doing a Mission: Impossible stunt to drink from the hummingbird feeder, would, I have the wonder and whisper, “It’s Jesus.”.
When I hear my children bust out in laughter together in the other room, oh that I would pause in the midst of the busyness and rejoice in those joyful sounds, letting my heart ring out once again with “It’s Jesus!”.
Check this out – the Bible says that “out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45). So the equation seems pretty simple: A (seeing the ‘normal’ through eyes of wonder) + B (praising Jesus because so much of what I see is Him at work) = C (speaking more words filled with joy, peace, encouragement and hope).
That’s the life I want to live with more consistency so that my wife, my children, and the world around me might catch me whispering those very words of wonder, “It’s Jesus!”.