{"id":22199,"date":"2019-05-08T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=22199"},"modified":"2019-05-08T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:45:19","slug":"worship-wednesday-wonder-worship-so-will-i-hillsong-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=22199","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – Wonder & Worship – “So Will I” – Hillsong Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Cedar Ridge Community Church<\/a><\/p>\n

This week I’ve had the privilege of speaking at a home-school conference. One of the topics was the role that we as parents have in modeling wonder and training worship. Our children are born with this huge sense of wonder, and then as the years go by, it can be dampened by the harder things (or people) in our lives. However, we, as adults, can model our own grown-up wonder. What follows as we remind our children the source of the wonder…is worship.<\/p>\n

The conference was themed from the Dr. Seuss book “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!<\/em><\/a>” In reading it again prior to the conference, I was reminded of the apostle Peter’s exclamation below. At one time in Jesus’ ministry on earth, some of his followers fell away. He then asked his closest followers if they would leave him (John 6:67-69<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“Lord, where would we go? You have the words of eternal life.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Where would we go? There’s nowhere…no one…like the Lord. The Creator and Sustainer of this beautiful world…
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\u201cWhen I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place\u2014 What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings; You crowned him with glory and honor.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Psalm 8:3-5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEven the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You. For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Psalm 139:12-14<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSo if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest? Consider how the lilies grow: they do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Luke 12:26-28<\/a><\/p>\n

In thinking of how, as parents, we might protect and nurture our children’s sense of wonder<\/a>, we rouse up our own sense of wonder.<\/p>\n

Why We Must Protect and Nurture Our Children’s Sense of Wonder<\/em> – Linda Akeson McGurk<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA child\u2019s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement\u2026I should ask that [a] gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life<\/strong>. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it<\/strong>, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Rachel Carson, <\/a>The Sense of Wonder <\/em><\/p>\n

What happens to our wonder? How do we pass it along, or keep it flourishing in our kiddos?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s helpful to spend a bit of time in reflection on some of what causes us to wonder:<\/p>\n