BROKEN SEASHELL.......TREASURE........WONDER!!!!!!!!!
DEFINITION: WONDER---ISAIAH 9:6 ONE OF THE TITLES OF JESUS CHRIST
IS . "WONDER"-(1)-- IN PSALM 119:18 THE PSALMIST PRAYS THAT GOD WILL
REVEAL TO HIM "WONDROUS THINGS" FROM THE LAW OF THE LORD:
MATTERS BEYOND NORMAL HUMAN PERCEPTION REQUIRING SUPERNATURAL
INSIGHT TO SEE THEM.
(2) WONDER ---"EXTRAORDINARY OCCURENCES, ETC. THEY CAUSE THE OBSERVER
TO MARVEL, OR BE IN AWE.
(3) TO WONDER---TO BE IN A STATE OF RAPT ATTENTION TOWARD THE EXTRA-ORDINARY OR MYSTERIOUS.
(4) RAPT---TRANSPORTED WITH EMOTION (AS LOVE, DELIGHT, OR REVERENT AWE)
I KNOW, THAT IS A LOT OF DEFINITIONS, BUT I HAD TO SET A "FIRM FOUNDATION" FOR THIS TO BUILD UPON!!!!!!!
Only about 2 years ago, my wife (MARY) and I were on vacation at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
On most of the days that we were there---We made sure that in our chairs and treasured the sunset.
One particular afternoon - when the sky was beginning to darken.....there were only two families still on that section of the beach.
Mary and I were not at all acquainted with the other family---who were in their chairs about 30 feet from us.
To the best of my memory--- the other family was an adult couple, with a young daughter. Mary and I both enjoyed watching the little girl as she played in the sand. The little girl began to search for
sea shells........When she saw a sea shell that she especially liked---she would put it aside for keeping, putting the other shells back on the sand.
When she picked up a particular shell....she examined it more closely, and with a look of joy and
wonder on her face........she walked over to where Mary and I were sitting---and she carefully showed
her (treasure) to us. Her face almost "glowed" with wonder and awe at the TREASURE in her hand!!!
Mary and I both admired her (treasure), and thanked her for sharing it with us; and we Blessed her!!!
Definition: "treasure"---especially precious or valuable. In the eyes of the world there is/was very
little value in a broken sea shell.........
But in the eyes, and in the HEART of that little girl---there was GREAT VALUE in her discovery---
the sea shell.
Although she might not know it- there was great value (TREASURE) in our appreciation of her
sharing HER treasure with us!!!
Ongoing...there is (great TREASURE) for me---in that I remember her often and pray for her and
her family---That thrills my heart every time!!!
And there is TREASURE for my heart in anticipating the probability of seeing her and her family in heaven!!!!!!!!
Once for all time and into eternity the "ONE TRUE GOD" (John 17:3) established our value to HIM-
--by the great and terrible price that He paid in sending HIS SON JESUS to suffer and die for OUR
sins!!!
JESUS "had no stately form, nor splendor.
HE was despised and forsaken by men.....a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.....HE was stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, beaten, bruised, crushed, and crucified" - for the sins of us all
(Isaiah 53:2-5).
Also, there is continuing wonder for me/us in contemplating there we serve such a HOLY GOD WHO loves us enough to pay that terrible price (see above) for us; HOLY GOD WHO put
Mary and me on that section of that beach, that day, and that specific time.....so that we could see/
experience her TREASURE....and pray ongoing that she will soon and FOREVER belong to, and
experience the ONE (HOLY GOD) WHO treasures her ---beyond words to describe how TOTALLY
HE treasures her
