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"Look among the nations and watch--Be utterly astounded! For [I will] work a work in your days [Which] you would not believe, though it were told [you]. Habakkuk 1:5 NKJV
Marshall McLuhan’s maxim, “the medium is the message,” asserts that the mediums we expose ourselves to influence how we experience life. The internet medium’s instant access to any information anywhere, for instance, has changed how societies process patience and contentment.
Marshall McLuhan’s maxim, “the medium is the message,” asserts that the mediums we expose ourselves to influence how we experience life. The internet medium’s instant access to any information anywhere, for instance, has changed how societies process patience and contentment.
Habakkuk’s counsel to “look at” and “watch” what God is doing so that believers can enjoy the wonder in being “utterly amazed” deepens McLuhan’s insight.
Habakkuk’s prophecy explains how God will use an unlikely nation to accomplish His purposes. This certainly “amazed” anyone who took the time to observe what God was doing. This is often God’s way: to use the unlikely and the unexpected so that His followers can find Him, as John Fischer put it, even where they least expect Him.
What are you hoping to spend your free time looking at and observing today? Spend time looking at what God is doing in the world through this devotional book, ministry blogs, and in your life, and you’ll find yourself “utterly amazed.” Perhaps you’ll experience God as Nahum wrote, surrounding you like castle walls in the day of distress (Nahum 1:7), or maybe you’ll find yourself so overwhelmed by Him that you can’t help but celebrate with Habakkuk “on the heights” (Habakkuk 3:19).
Prayer: Father, amaze me!
Marshall McLuhan’s maxim, “the medium is the message,” asserts that the mediums we expose ourselves to influence how we experience life. The internet medium’s instant access to any information anywhere, for instance, has changed how societies process patience and contentment.
Marshall McLuhan’s maxim, “the medium is the message,” asserts that the mediums we expose ourselves to influence how we experience life. The internet medium’s instant access to any information anywhere, for instance, has changed how societies process patience and contentment.
Habakkuk’s counsel to “look at” and “watch” what God is doing so that believers can enjoy the wonder in being “utterly amazed” deepens McLuhan’s insight.
Habakkuk’s prophecy explains how God will use an unlikely nation to accomplish His purposes. This certainly “amazed” anyone who took the time to observe what God was doing. This is often God’s way: to use the unlikely and the unexpected so that His followers can find Him, as John Fischer put it, even where they least expect Him.
What are you hoping to spend your free time looking at and observing today? Spend time looking at what God is doing in the world through this devotional book, ministry blogs, and in your life, and you’ll find yourself “utterly amazed.” Perhaps you’ll experience God as Nahum wrote, surrounding you like castle walls in the day of distress (Nahum 1:7), or maybe you’ll find yourself so overwhelmed by Him that you can’t help but celebrate with Habakkuk “on the heights” (Habakkuk 3:19).
Prayer: Father, amaze me!
