Choose To Be Fascinated

This is an expert from a sermon I recently preached.

We complain about the dumbest things sometimes. I am just as guilty as anyone. During last spring break I flew down to Chicago from Bismarck on Delta. And I have never experienced this before, but we were in a traffic jam on the runway. So we waited there…on the runway…for an hour and a half. And the sad thing is that this is an actual story here in our world! People will sympathetically get mad with you because of a story like this, saying something like, "Oh my word! How long did you wait?? What is this world coming to???"

Really, Brant, what happened to you after that? Did you fly through the air incredibly?? Did you soar into the clouds like a bird?? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight and complain about the entire you were up there?

"I’m never flying Delta again…"

You’re flying!!!! Look out the window. You are looking DOWN onto the tops of clouds that previously only angels and birds could see before airplanes!!! This is a crazy! You’re sitting in the chair in the sky!

I had this choice: I could choose to be frustrated or I could choose to be fascinated. And everyday you have this choice, as well.

One of my favorite feelings in all of my life is that feeling you get when the pilot kicks it into 100th gear and your begin to lift off the ground and you are no longer tied to this planet by gravity. Blood rushes to my head; my heart skips a few beats; I grin without meaning to. I am fascinated!

When you are fascinated, you momentarily lose sight of yourself because you are lost in wonder. You were made for wonder!

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