From Familiar to Fascination

 My prayer app says it every morning lately. 

“…Spirit, move my heart from familiar to fascinated until it is ablaze with your unfailing love.” 

And my heart knows that’s what it needs. I’ve had times when things have become so familiar to me that it has lost its fascination in me. But oh how I want to be fascinated again with God. Oh how I want the transformation of Jesus in my life. Where things aren’t boring or just dead and mundane, but to be in wonder. 

Recently my sisters have come to visit on their vacations with their kids. It’s amazing the buzz around the house when people are visiting and it feels exciting not to know from one day to the next whether you’ll be hitting the beach or going on another drive with Dad to hear all the stories of days gone by. And for a moment the mundane feeling fades and you are met with a little excitement because someone(s) that you love has come to visit.

This is what movement from familiar to fascinating feels like. Excitement, wonder, in awe of. This is what I long for in my relationship with God—the Holy Trinity. That the fascination would move in me and I’d be in wonder once again.

What about you, friend? Are you living your life with God out of familiarity or fascination? Do you long to be in wonder again? If you are bored and tired of the mundane… I get it! There still can be a good thing in knowing God in the familiar, but that still is not the way that will sustain us. We need a heart that is fascinated! May God’s Spirit move us into the fascinating again. Let’s be in wonder. Just like when people we love come visit again.