Get Your Fire Back With the Psalms!နမူနာ

I need to start with a confession.

I can be judgy. But, before you think less of me, I wonder if you can be judgy, too.

Have you ever made fun of people who live near the beach but never play in the ocean? Do you know anyone who lives near a mountain but never goes skiing or even throws a snowball? Have you ever met someone with a great car they never take out for a drive?

We all wonder why they aren't enjoying what they have. We see what they have far differently than they do.

We live in a fantastic world! So many things could provoke our wonder, but they often don't. We were once on fire, amazed and in awe of it all, but somewhere along the way, something changed. The fire burned out. The wonder wore off.

However, our biggest problem isn't our lack of wonder at creation. Our biggest problem isn't even that we lost our fire. Underneath the absence of our passion, our biggest problem is our lack of wonder at the Creator. We no longer were amazed at God and His work in our lives. As a result, we have lost our passion for Him.

Have you lost your fire? Your passion? Do you still see the world with fresh eyes, or has your vision gotten tired?

In Revelation, the Apostle John rebukes the church at Ephesus because it has one glaring problem.

"Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen!"‬‬

I wonder how far you have fallen. When was the last time you felt the warmth of God's love in your heart or the fire of passion for serving Him?

During this plan, I want to share five things with you to help you regain your fire. First, you need to know that your wonder about God fuels your passion for God. When you no longer consider what God did for you special, everything else will lose its luster.

The church in Ephesus experienced this firsthand. As described in Revelation 2, this church had a lot going for it. They were disciplined and faithful, even opposing those who taught a false gospel. However, John critiques them for something unseen. Their hearts are no longer motivated by love. They are going through the motions and have fallen from a great height. Put differently, the fire inside them is gone, and they no longer burn with love for Jesus.

You may think, "Scott, I thought this plan was about the Psalms?!" This plan is about the Psalms, and we'll dive deep into a psalm in the following devotional. But before we get there, I want to help you do a heart check.

Do you have any sense of awe about God? Any sense of wonder when you read Scripture? When you review your testimony, does it still blow you away that you are God's beloved, forgiven, and made new because of what Jesus did for you?

Without wonder, your life with God won't flourish. You won't live with a fire, passion, or zeal for God. I want to help you get your fire back. And it starts with getting honest about your wonder meter today.

In the next day's devotional, we'll examine the second thing you need to know to get your wonder back. It involves doing something you may not have done for a long time!