Wonder
Day 7 — Unseen: Sabbath
You’ve covered a lot of ground this week.
You named the story you’ve been telling yourself about God — and discovered it might be smaller than the real one. You met the Father as Jesus reveals Him — not distant or disappointed, but inclined toward you, lavishing love rather than rationing it. You looked directly at Jesus and sat with the most important question anyone will ever be asked. You encountered a God who is 100% grace and 100% truth simultaneously — who sees everything and hasn’t left. And you discovered that the homesickness you’ve been carrying has a name, a Kingdom, and a commission inside it.
That is not a small week.
Today, don’t add anything to it. Don’t rush to the next thing. Don’t turn this into another item on the list.
Just stop. Look at what you’ve been shown. And let wonder do what information never can.
Sit With These Questions — Slowly, One at a Time
What is the most surprising thing Jesus has shown me this week?
Where did I feel the curtain move — even slightly — this week?
What assumption about God am I starting to release?
If the Kingdom of Light is real and I am an ambassador of it — what does that change about tomorrow?
What would it mean to actually be known — fully, completely — and fully loved at the same time?
Is there something Jesus has been saying to me this week that I haven’t quite let myself hear yet?
A Practice for Today
Choose one — or more than one if you’re drawn to it:
Be still. Find fifteen minutes with no agenda. No phone. No music. No podcast. Just you and the quiet. You don’t have to fill the silence. The Kingdom operates in it.
Take a walk. Go outside and move slowly. Pay attention to what you see — really see. Let the physical world around you prompt wonder at the one who made it and holds it and is present in it.
Write a letter. Write to Jesus — not a prayer exactly, just a letter. Tell Him what this week stirred in you. What surprised you. What you’re still not sure about. What you’re beginning to hope might be true.
Worship. Put on music that moves something in you and let it. Don’t analyze it. Just receive it.
A Closing Prayer for the Sabbath
Jesus — thank You for this week. For pulling back the curtain, even a little. For being patient with my assumptions and my distance and the smallness of the story I’ve been living in.
I don’t have it all figured out. But something is shifting. The light is getting in.
Today I don’t want to add anything or accomplish anything or understand anything new. I just want to be still in the presence of what You’ve already shown me. To let wonder be enough.
I’m listening. I’m looking. I’m here.
Amen.
Rest well. Week 2 begins tomorrow.
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© Steve Peschke / This Is The Way