Amazing God

One thing I never get tired of seeing is how God never ceases to amaze me. In all things, the Lord has a beautiful way of showing us just how awesome He is. From the beauty of nature to the miracles we hear about throughout history, often witnessed through the eyes of faith, there are moments that leave us completely amazed and filled with wonder.
We hear stories of people who have experienced what seem to be impossible miracles: patients recovering from cancer, mothers surviving incredibly difficult births that could have taken their lives or the lives of their babies, and people overcoming extraordinary circumstances in some of the most hostile environments imaginable. Our Lord always seems to find a way to surprise us with these unbelievable moments. Unless you have lived through them yourself, you might never believe they actually happened. Perhaps this is one of the reasons people throughout history continue to turn toward God, hoping that His grace might touch their lives in one of those extraordinary moments of joy and wonder.
This has probably been true throughout all of human history. People have written accounts of God’s amazing works miracles that sometimes seem to escape human reasoning but simply remind us of who He is and what He means to us in our lives.
But this leads me to wonder about something else: How often have we amazed God?
How often have we done something that made Him stop and take notice, not because we accomplished something grand, but because we finally did something He always knew we were capable of doing?
There are moments in Scripture that seem to point to this very idea. God encounters people who, through their faith, compassion, humility, or love, reveal something extraordinary about what humanity can become. God already knows our potential. After all, we were created in His image and likeness. He knows the immense capacity for growth, love, compassion, and faith that He placed within us.
We see this in the stories of the people who encountered Jesus.
There was the woman who had suffered from hemorrhaging for years. She didn’t ask for a great miracle or make a grand proclamation. She simply believed that if she could touch even the tassel of His garment, she would be healed.
There was the centurion who approached Jesus and said, in essence, “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my servant will be healed.” His faith was so remarkable that Jesus stopped and marveled at it, even in front of His disciples. The centurion wasn’t one of Jesus’ closest followers, yet his faith was greater than what Jesus had found among many in Israel.
Today, we repeat those same words at every Mass: “Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.”
Then there was the Canaanite woman whose daughter was suffering being tormented by a demon. She kept calling out to Jesus, refusing to give up even when it seemed He was turning her away. Her persistence and faith revealed something so profound that Jesus responded to it with admiration: “Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.”
There are so many of these moments in the Gospels, moments of pure amazement. I can only imagine the look on our Lord’s face, the tenderness in His eyes, as He saw humanity for what we could become when we truly loved Him with a faith that moved beyond fear and into complete trust.
And so I sometimes wonder: When was the last time I amazed Jesus?
When was the last time I did something that made Him stop and say, “My son, your faith has saved you”? When was the last time I did something, not grand or impressive, but something rooted in such a small and sincere act of faith that it left an impression on my Lord?
I hope that one day I can become a reason for God to take notice not because of the greatness of what I have accomplished, but because of how deeply I have learned to love Him.
Maybe that is what truly amazes God.
Not the size of our accomplishments, but the sincerity of our hearts.
Not how much we can do, but how much we are willing to love.
And perhaps, in the end, the greatest miracle of all is when a human heart freely chooses to love God so completely that it leaves a mark, not on the world, but on the heart of God.

God bless you always.