Changi Chapel

How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep! The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this” (Psalm 92:5–6).

The devil does not want you to wonder. Wonder is deadly to the domain of darkness because of its dangerous tendency to lead to worship.

So the devil is going to do his level best to keep you stupid – stupid in the sense of being sense-less.

If he can’t damn you, he will try to dumb you. You must resist him (1 Peter 5:9)!

Let yourself wonder. Let it lead you to worship the One who created it all (Colossians 1:16) and who is at this very moment upholding it all by the word of his power (Hebrews 1:3).

But expect a fight. The devil wants you stupid, distracted from wonder, fearful of an imagined future, and deceived by his virtual, distorted counterfeit of God’s true world.

But don’t be fooled. Get into the book of Scripture first and then get out into the book of nature.

Listen to them tell you of the glory of God. “Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well” (Psalm 139:14).

When were you last lost in wonder at God’s creation?


Jon Bloom
Desiring God Ministries
Minneapolis, MN

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