Amazing

Amazing-One day, I idly wondering what I would write about in my next blog.
It seems like I have already written about everything that I can possibly
write about. I am not even sure when or how the word "amazing" can into my
mind but, when it did, I thought that it was something I could write about.
Especially with help from the Holy Spirit. First, though, I looked up the
meaning of "amazing". Not that I don't know but I just to see what
they said. The most common definition seems to "something that causes great
surprise, wonderment or astonishment".

Whenever I hear the word "amazing", I can't help thinking about God. Just
that there is really a God is, to me, totally amazing.  Call it great
surprise. Call it wonderment. Call it astonishment. Call it anything you
want but on the day that I became a born-again Christian and really knew
that God was very real, I was totally flabbergasted. And, after 30+ years, I
still am. Quite often, even now, I catch myself "asking" God how He really
can be.

Amazing Grace. I love that old hymn. Even a lot of non-Christians know it.
But what they don't know is how very true it is . God's grace is amazing. I
know from experience that, if it wasn't for God's grace, there no way
I could keep on living the way I have been living year after year after
year. But, somehow, God gives me grace to endure whatever I have to endure.
I find it quite amazing that I am doing what I am doing. And all because of
God's amazing grace.

The mercy of God is just as amazing. I have heard mercy defined as not
getting what we deserve. I know that I depend on God's mercy a LOT. Because
of sheer frustration, too often I don't act the way I know that a Christian
should be acting,. But, instead of the rebuke that I deserve, I often feel
like God is wrapping His arms around me and giving me the comfort I need at
time. That is not to say that I never get rebuked but, because of God's
amazing mercy, not as often as I feel I deserve. Even when I am  reading the
Bible, I am constantly amazed at all the times that God doesn't give people
what their actions probably deserve.

I have written so many blogs that I have trouble remembering what I have
already written about. It does, though, seem to me to me that, previously, I
wrote on the love of God so I will just touch on the amazing love of God. I
admit that I don't even begin to understand the depths of His love but I do
know that I any so thankful for that amazing love that doesn't change
whenever my mood does.

Not too long ago, somebody said that that I was an amazing lady. My first
thought was that she wouldn't think that if she had ever seen me in one of
my meltdown moments! Seriously, there is nothing whatsoever amazing about
me. I am just an ordinary woman who just happens live under circumstances
that have been orchestrated by an amazing God. The fact that I am "hanging
in there" has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with me. It has everything
to do with an amazing God with His amazing grace and mercy.

Of course, we often use the word "amazing" in situations that seem to have
no connection with God. But is that really true? I like to watch nature
shows. I always find it amazing how the animals have just the instincts they
need to survive in their particular environment. Those instincts were put
there by their Creator, our amazing God. There are a lot of beautiful places
in nature. All created by an amazing God. Sometimes, one hears about an
amazing singer, athlete or whatever. Certainly they have had to take the
time and make the effort to develop their abilities but those abilities were
first put in them by God. I suspect that a lot of what we call amazing in
this world has its roots in God.

Anyhow, to me, the word "amazing" makes me think of God. Most things make me start thinking about God simply because He is such a big part of my life.