The Wonder of Wonders

THE WONDER OF WONDERS how amazing that God should fashion something so wonderful out of things of such poor monetary value! only he can bring the dead to life; he has the power to convert insensate matter into conscious life, to make something out of nothing. if a magician were to cast a spell on a stone, making it break into speech, everyone would be spellbound at his feat. The feat which God has performed is one of much greater complexity. he has made the inanimate matter that constitutes man’s body into a moving, talking, thinking human being. however, God’s feat does not cause people to wonder. how blind are those who can see the skill of a conjurer’s magical feats but not the infinitely more incredible feats of God’s creation? how ignorant are those who rush to become devoted disciples of anyone able to perform false tricks without feeling any adoration for or attachment to the one who performs genuinely great acts of creative genius! if only man were to discover God truly, he would become absorbed in the lord’s wondrous feats of creation. Everything in the world would appear to him as a great sign of God’s power and perfection. While dwelling in an earthly abode, he would see and feel nothing but the lord on high.